Re: [PATCH 5/7] drivers/mfd: make max77686.c explicitly non-modular

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>]

Hello Krzysztof,

On 04/03/2016 11:44 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 04.04.2016 06:24, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>>
>> drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_MAX77686
>> drivers/mfd/Kconfig:    bool "Maxim Semiconductor MAX77686/802 PMIC Support"
>>
>> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>>
>> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
>> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>>
>> We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a
>> sensible use case anyway, and it allows us to drop the ".remove"
>> code for non-modular drivers.
>>
>> Since module_init was not in use by this code, the init ordering
>> remains unchanged with this commit.
>>
>> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
>>
>> We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
>> is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.
>>
>> Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
>> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
>> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mfd/max77686.c | 26 ++------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> +Cc Javier,
> 
> I think we want to proceed with Javier's work for max77686:
> mfd: max77686: Allow the driver to be built as a module
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1602.1/03921.html
> 
> Javier, what is the status of your patchset? What do you need?
>

All patches but the one getting rid of the subsys initcall were
already picked by Lee.

I was waiting for the exynos thermal [0] patch that adds probe
deferral support to land into mainline to resend that one. The
patch is already in mainline so I'll do it today after testing.
 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 

[0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/18/592

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America