[PATCH] pinctrl: sunxi: make bool drivers explicitly non-modular

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 2 06:41:35 PDT 2016


On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 08:00:30PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> None of the Kconfigs for any of these drivers are tristate,
> meaning that they currently are not being built as a module by anyone.
> 
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the drivers there is no doubt they are builtin-only.  All
> drivers get essentially the same change, so they are handled in batch.
> 
> Changes are (1) use builtin_platform_driver, (2) use init.h header
> (3) delete module_exit related code, (4) delete MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE,
> and (5) delete MODULE_LICENCE/MODULE_AUTHOR and associated tags.
> 
> Since module_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit.
> 
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
> 
> We do delete the MODULE_LICENSE etc. tags since all that information
> is already contained at the top of each file in the comments.
> 
> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard at st.com>
> Cc: Hongzhou Yang <hongzhou.yang at mediatek.com>
> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf at skynet.be>
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at st.com>
> Cc: Vishnu Patekar <vishnupatekar0510 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mylene Josserand <mylene.josserand at free-electrons.com>
> Cc: linux-gpio at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Thanks,
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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