From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1428987AbcBTBgM (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:36:12 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:38525 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1428164AbcBTBgJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:36:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:36:04 -0800 From: Darren Hart To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/platform: make x86/intel_scu_ipc.c explicitly non-modular Message-ID: <20160220013604.GD23707@dvhart-mobl5.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <1455480052-1732-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1455480052-1732-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:00:52PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: > > drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:config INTEL_SCU_IPC > drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig: bool "Intel SCU IPC Support" > > ...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. > > We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a > sensible use case anyway, and it allows us to drop the ".remove" > code for non-modular drivers. > > Since module_pci_driver() uses the same init level priority as > builtin_pci_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with > this commit. > > Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code. > > We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that. > > 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: Darren Hart > Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Queued to testing with a normalized subject: platform/x86: Make intel_scu_ipc explicitly non-modular Thank you Paul. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center