[PATCH v5 0/4] pinctrl: mediatek: Enable module build support
Justin Yeh
justin.yeh at mediatek.com
Wed Jul 8 23:33:45 PDT 2026
This series lets the MediaTek pinctrl drivers be built as loadable
kernel modules. This is required for Android GKI + vendor_dlkm
deployments, where vendor-specific drivers must be kept separate from
the GKI vmlinux and loaded as modules from the vendor partition.
Enabling the individual SoC drivers as modules is a single logical step,
but it has a few prerequisites, so the series is:
1. Fix a pre-existing GPIO chip lifecycle bug. The gpio_chip lives in
device-managed memory but is registered with the non-managed
gpiochip_add_data(). While the drivers were built-in only this was
harmless, but once they can be unbound/rmmod'd, devm frees the
backing memory while the chip is still registered (use-after-free).
Switch to devm_gpiochip_add_data() in the shared probe/init paths.
This affects the v1 common code (pinctrl-mtk-common.c) as well as
the moore and paris common code, which is where the v2 SoCs
register their gpio_chip (pinctrl-mtk-common-v2.c itself does not
register one, so it is untouched).
2. Make the shared common code modular. The SoC drivers link against
pinctrl-mtk-common.c (v1), pinctrl-moore.c and pinctrl-mtmips.c,
whose Kconfig symbols were bool and which exported nothing. Without
this, selecting a SoC driver as =m forces the common symbol to =y
and the module fails to link against the unexported entry points
(e.g. allmodconfig would break). Convert PINCTRL_MTK,
PINCTRL_MTK_MOORE and PINCTRL_MTK_MTMIPS to tristate, export the
entry points, and add MODULE_LICENSE()/MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). The
already-modular v2 common code additionally needs mtk_rmw()
exported, since it is called directly by SoC drivers such as
mt7623 and would otherwise be undefined once those are modular.
3. Convert the MT7986 driver to a single initcall. It registers two
platform drivers (mt7986a/mt7986b) and used to call arch_initcall()
twice. That is fine when built-in, but a module has only one
module_init(), so two arch_initcall()s break the module build with
a redefinition of init_module()/__inittest(). Fold both drivers
into one platform_register_drivers() call from a single initcall.
No functional change when built-in.
4. Flip every SoC driver's Kconfig from bool to tristate and add the
module metadata.
The series builds cleanly under allmodconfig on arm64 (all SoC drivers
as =m).
Changes since v4:
- Squashed the 32 per-driver "Enable module build support" patches into
a single patch (4/4), as requested by Linus Walleij.
- Added patch 1/4 fixing the gpio_chip lifecycle (devm) bug, as a
prerequisite for making the drivers unloadable, per Linus Walleij's
review.
- Added patch 2/4 converting the shared common drivers to modules, so
that the v1/moore/mtmips SoC drivers can actually link as modules
(without it 21 of the SoC drivers would fail to build as =m). Also
export mtk_rmw() from the v2 common code (fixes a modpost
"mtk_rmw undefined" error on the mt7623 module).
- Added patch 3/4 folding MT7986's two arch_initcall()s into a single
initcall (fixes an init_module()/__inittest() redefinition when the
driver is built as a module).
- Dropped the (inappropriate) per-driver Fixes: tags from the module
enablement patch; it is a feature change, not a fix.
The Reviewed-by on patch 4/4 is carried over from the per-driver patches
reviewed in v4; the reviewer agreed to preserve it across the squash.
Note that the MT7986 single-initcall change that was part of that patch
has been split out into patch 3/4, so patch 4/4 now only flips Kconfig
and adds module metadata. Patches 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4 have not been
reviewed yet.
Justin Yeh (4):
pinctrl: mediatek: use devm_gpiochip_add_data() for GPIO chip
pinctrl: mediatek: allow common drivers to be built as modules
pinctrl: mediatek: mt7986: register both platform drivers from a
single initcall
pinctrl: mediatek: enable module build support for all SoC drivers
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/Kconfig | 70 +++++++++----------
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-moore.c | 11 +--
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt2701.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt2712.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6397.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6795.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6797.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6878.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt6893.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7620.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7621.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7622.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7623.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7629.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt76x8.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7981.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7986.c | 18 ++---
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt7988.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8127.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8135.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8167.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8173.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8183.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8186.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8188.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8189.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8192.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8195.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8196.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8365.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8516.c | 3 +
.../pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common-v2.c | 1 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c | 22 +++---
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtmips.c | 4 ++
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-paris.c | 2 +-
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-rt2880.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-rt305x.c | 3 +
drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-rt3883.c | 3 +
38 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
base-commit: 8e9685d3c41c35dd1b37df70d854137abcb2fbac
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2.45.2
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