Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Support building gpio-tegra driver as loadable module

[Dmitry Osipenko]

24.01.2021 01:50, Linus Walleij пишет:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:59 PM Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This small series adds modularization support to the gpio-tegra driver,
>> i.e. driver now could be built as a loadable kernel module.
>>
>> Dmitry Osipenko (3):
>>   gpio: tegra: Use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile()
>>   gpio: tegra: Clean up whitespaces in tegra_gpio_driver
>>   gpio: tegra: Support building driver as a loadable module
> 
> As these three patches clearly make the kernel look better after
> than before:
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> However when we are doing this I would strongly encourage you
> to also make a patch implementing remove() so you can insmod
> rmmod the module at runtime.

The remove() is optional for drivers, it doesn't prevent the rmmod.