[PATCH 14/21] staging: nvec: allow modular build

[Marc Dietrich]

On Tuesday 23 April 2013 22:14:18 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2013, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > It builds, but I haven't tried out it yet. At least the mfd children need
> > to unregister the event notifier I guess. Anyway, I have no time to test
> > this now, so I prefer to force =y for the dependencies for now.
> 
> Ah, so you can load it fine, but not safely unload it? In that case I think
> it's better to leave it as tristate but remove the module_exit() function to
> prevent unloading.
> 
> You'll have to change the module_platform_driver() back into a manual
> module_init() function to register the driver, but that sounds like
> the cleanest solution aside from fixing the notifier calls.

ok, I'll look into it - maybe I can also fix unloading.

Thanks!

Marc