Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 2016 14:37:37 -0600 | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] drivers/pci: use builtin_platform_driver in renesas |
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 07:59:07PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > These two commits are extracted from what was a larger series[1] of > demodularization in PCI host code that was bool Kconfig. > > With the other commits, there was some mixed opinions whether we > should make it explicitly non-modular or move towards making it > functionally working as a tristate in order to reduce the size of > built-in code for multi-platform kernels. > > However with the renesas changes, there was no ".remove" and no > "module_exit" code stripped out ; it is just a straight 1:1 mapping > of the modular macros onto what they become in the non-modular case > anyway -- meaning the runtime remains unchanged.
Is there any reason these drivers can't be made modular? I'd rather do that, if we can.
Bjorn
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