Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:45:32 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/misc: make arm-charlcd.c explicitly non-modular | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: > > drivers/misc/Kconfig:config ARM_CHARLCD > drivers/misc/Kconfig: bool "ARM Ltd. Character LCD Driver" > > ...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. > > We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a > sensible use case anyway, and this driver did not have a ".remove" > function coded for non-modular drivers either. > > Since module_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as > builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with > this commit. > > We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that. > > We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information > is already contained at the top of the file in the comments. > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
I would consider the modular code a copy/paste error. Unfortunately not uncommon in the kernel :(
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Thanks for doing this and keeping the kernel clean.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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