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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] drivers/bus: make arm-ccn.c driver explicitly non-modular
[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.
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>
> Pawel

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