[PATCH 5/5] drivers/tty: make serial 8250_lpc18xx.c explicitly non-modular

Joachim Eastwood manabian at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 11:42:16 PDT 2015


Hi Paul,

On 9 August 2015 at 02:51, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com> wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> 8250/Kconfig:config SERIAL_8250_LPC18XX
> 8250/Kconfig:        bool "NXP LPC18xx/43xx serial port support"
>
> ...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.

The bool in KConfig is more or less a copy-paste mistake on my side. I
really meant for this driver to be buildable as module and it builds
just fine with 'm'.

Want me send a patch changing it to tristate or will you handle it?


regards,
Joachim Eastwood



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