cpufreq: mediatek: allow modular build

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Fri Sep 11 03:09:16 PDT 2015


On 11-09-15, 10:58, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Not module "unplug" (I've never heard it called that before).  A module
> with a module_init() but no module_exit() can only be added to a running
> kernel, and never removed.  That's intentional behaviour.

Ah, I see. I wasn't sure that a module with no module_exit() can't be
removed.

> However, if you're talking about hot-unplug, presumably you're talking
> about _CPU_ hot-unplug, and that's something the code should definitely
> handle irrespective of whether it's built-in or a module.
> 
> The two issues are entirely separate.

Bah, all this time I meant module insertion/removal, sorry :(

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viresh



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