Re: [PATCH 3/9] drivers/gpio: make gpio-mc9s08dz60.c explicitly non-modular

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Mar 31 2016 - 09:02:46 EST


On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:config GPIO_MC9S08DZ60
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig: bool "MX35 3DS BOARD MC9S08DZ60 GPIO functions"
>
> ...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.
>
> Since module_i2c_driver() uses the same init level priority as
> builtin_i2c_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with
> this commit.
>
> Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> 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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wu Guoxing <b39297@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij