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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] pinctrl: sunxi: Add H3 PIO controller support
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:17:51AM +0200, Jens Kuske wrote:
> >> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sun8i_h3_pinctrl_match);
> >
> >> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Jens Kuske <jenskuske@gmail.com>");
> >> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Allwinner H3 pinctrl driver");
> >> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> >
> > This adds some module specific boilerplate. Was it perhaps your
> > intention to make PINCTRL_SUN8I_H3 a tristate symbol?
> >
>
> I don't know to be honest, I just followed the pattern of all the other
> pinctrl-sun?i-*.c files. But it sounds logical that this is needless
> in the current state.
>
> Looks like it got introduced when splitting up the driver:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-April/251712.html
>
> Maybe there were plans to use separate modules some day. If not, we
> should remove it from the other files as well I guess. Maxime, could
> you please comment on that?

I don't see anything wrong with building those as modules.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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