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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers as a module
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:03:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150810210318.GA10379@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABpLfogMDbgVXVp8PGHjQ_qG-j4Q1TC-aKjGd5-D6wE1amCEXA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:10:37PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Apparently I've misread "- make sure things build as modules properly"
> line in drivers/staging/android/TODO...
> My bad.

Nope, not your fault, I forgot about that.  We should remove that TODO
item, as it doesn't make sense for these "non-discoverable" modules to
be built as a module.

Care to make a patch for that?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-10 21:03 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 ` [PATCH 0/6] staging: android: allow building some drivers " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-08-10 20:10   ` Mike Rapoport
2015-08-10 21:03     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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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