RE: [PATCH V3 0/9] Support i.MX8 SoCs pinctrl drivers built as module

Aisheng Dong
2020-06-10T08:05:08Z

> From: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 10:21 PM
>
> There are more and mroe requirements that SoC specific modules should be
> built as module in order to support generic kernel image, such as Android GKI
> concept.
>
> This patch series supports i.MX8 SoCs pinctrl drivers to be built as module,
> including i.MX8MQ/MM/MN/MP/QXP/QM/DXL SoCs, and it also supports
> building i.MX common pinctrl driver and i.MX SCU common pinctrl driver as
> module.
>

This patch series also changed the driver initcall level from arch_initcall to module_init.
Maybe you could provide some test information to help the reviewer to better understand
the change impact.

Regards
Aisheng

> Compared to V2, the changes are as below:
> - add "depends on OF" to PINCTRL_IMX to fix build error using x86
> randconfig;
> - change the config dependency of PINCTRL_IMX_SCU to support scenario
> of
> building in PINCTRL_IMX while building PINCTRL_IMX_SCU as module,
> no other
> good choice in my mind, if you have better idea without changing the
> driver
> code, please advise.
>
> Anson Huang (9):
> pinctrl: imx: Support building SCU pinctrl driver as module
> pinctrl: imx: Support building i.MX pinctrl driver as module
> pinctrl: imx8mm: Support building as module
> pinctrl: imx8mn: Support building as module
> pinctrl: imx8mq: Support building as module
> pinctrl: imx8mp: Support building as module
> pinctrl: imx8qxp: Support building as module
> pinctrl: imx8qm: Support building as module
> pinctrl: imx8dxl: Support building as module
>
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx.c | 4 ++++
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx.h | 2 +-
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8dxl.c | 9 +++------
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mm.c | 10 ++++------
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mn.c | 10 ++++------
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mp.c | 10 ++++------
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mq.c | 9 ++++-----
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8qm.c | 9 +++------
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8qxp.c | 9 +++------
> drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-scu.c | 6 ++++++
> 11 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.7.4