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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:38:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150810153835.GC13461@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1439187861-3864-1-git-send-email-mike.rapoport@gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:24:15AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> These patches enable building of timed_gpio, sync* and ashmem as a module

Why do you want to do this?  Does it ever make sense to do this type of
thing for your kernel?  What does changing these to modules enable you
to do differently?

As it is, I think the code should stay non-modular.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-10 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-10  6:24 [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10  6:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: allow building timed_gpio " Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10  6:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] staging: android: sync_debug.c: add include for linux/module.h Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10  6:24 ` [PATCH 3/6] staging: android: combine sync.o and sync_debug.o into sync-core.o Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10  6:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] staging: android: allow building sync and sw_sync as a module Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10  6:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: export shmem_zero_setup for modules Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10  7:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-10  6:24 ` [PATCH 6/6] staging: android: allow building ashmem as a module Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10 15:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-08-10 20:10   ` [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers " Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10 21:03     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-08-11 13:09       ` Mike Rapoport
2015-08-11 18:10         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-08-11 19:08           ` [PATCH] staging: android: TODO: remove irrelevant parts Mike Rapoport
2015-08-11 23:39             ` Joe Perches
2015-08-12 18:08               ` [PATCH v2] staging: android: update TODO Mike Rapoport

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