Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:14:35 -0400 | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/bus: make arm-ccn.c driver explicitly non-modular |
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[Re: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/bus: make arm-ccn.c driver explicitly non-modular] On 29/03/2016 (Tue 12:53) Pawel Moll wrote:
> Dnia 2016-03-29, Tue o godzinie 12:45 +0100, Will Deacon pisze: > > I'd much rather fix the driver to build as a module, if at all > > possible. > > Suzuki (CC'd) is taking a look at that, so please drop this patch for > > now. > > There's no problem with building arm-ccn.c as a module - all it's > really doing today is providing a PMU driver. I don't even know why > have I made it bool-only in the first place...
My guess is that like many other instances, it originally starts out as an innocent copy and paste during early driver development -- hence the desire to get the code and Kconfigs consistent tree wide.
Anyway, thanks guys for tackling the conversion ; I'll shelf this patch and watch for the conversion to hit linux-next.
Paul. --
> > Pawel
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