[PATCH 0/6] mfd: audit and demodule drivers/mfd/ab* drivers

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Oct 31 01:26:02 PDT 2016


On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker at windriver.com> wrote:

> Nothing new here ; just another instance where we had modular remove
> and exit functions -- but the Makefile/Kconfig limited the use case to
> being always built-in; hence the code is useless and needs removing.
>
> So we remove the dead code and the misleading hints of modularity from
> these drivers, hoping that we manage to prevent some new drivers from
> copying these same old mistakes into pending new drivers.
(...)
> Paul Gortmaker (6):
>   mfd: ab3100-core: Make it explicitly non-modular
>   mfd: ab8500-core: Make it explicitly non-modular
>   mfd: ab8500-debugfs: Make it explicitly non-modular
>   mfd: ab8500-gpadc: Make it explicitly non-modular
>   mfd: ab8500: make sysctrl explicitly non-modular
>   mfd: abx500-core: drop unused MODULE_ tags from non-modular code

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

For the whole series.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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