[PATCH 3/3] soc: fsl: make guts driver explicitly non-modular

Scott Wood oss at buserror.net
Mon Nov 14 21:10:24 PST 2016


On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 14:03 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> drivers/soc/fsl/Kconfig:config FSL_GUTS
> drivers/soc/fsl/Kconfig:        bool
> 
> ...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 the code was already not using module_init, the init ordering
> remains unchanged with this commit.
> 
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
> 
> Cc: Scott Wood <oss at buserror.net>
> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu at nxp.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>

Acked-by: Scott Wood <oss at buserror.net>

-Scott




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