Re: [PATCH] staging/media: make atomisp vlv2_plat_clock explicitly non-modular

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Apr 14 2017 - 04:13:03 EST


On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:57:55PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Makefile / Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> clock/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_ATOMISP) += vlv2_plat_clock.o
>
> atomisp/Kconfig:menuconfig INTEL_ATOMISP
> atomisp/Kconfig: bool "Enable support to Intel MIPI camera drivers"
>
> ...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_init was already not in use by this 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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm pretty sure we want this code to be built as a module, so maybe a
Kconfig change would resolve the issue instead?

Alan, any thoughts?

thanks,

greg k-h