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From: f.fainelli@gmail•com (Florian Fainelli)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] drivers/bus: make brcmstb_gisb.c driver explicitly non-modular
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:48:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570D42F5.6070308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160407012639.GA30748@localhost>

On 06/04/16 18:26, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 05:10:55PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> The Kconfig for this driver is currently:
>>
>> config BRCMSTB_GISB_ARB
>>         bool "Broadcom STB GISB bus arbiter"
>>
>> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>> Lets remove all modular references, so that when reading the driver
>> there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>>
>> Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular
>> case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit.
>>
>> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail•com>
>> Cc: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail•com>
>> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver•com>
> 
> I think this driver probably doesn't make too much sense as a module
> anyway (among other things, we can't hook the ARM fault handler beyond
> init time, as it's marked __init). So:
> 
> Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail•com>
> 
> Might be good to get Florian's ack though, as I'm not using this
> platform any more.

I concur with Brian here, your changes look good:

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>

Thanks Paul
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-12 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-27 21:10 [PATCH 0/4] drivers/bus: remove unused modular code from non-modular drivers Paul Gortmaker
2016-03-27 21:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] drivers/bus: make brcmstb_gisb.c driver explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker
2016-04-07  1:26   ` Brian Norris
2016-04-12 18:48     ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2016-03-27 21:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] drivers/bus: make imx-weim.c " Paul Gortmaker
2016-04-07  2:58   ` Shawn Guo
2016-03-27 21:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] drivers/bus: make simple-pm-bus.c " Paul Gortmaker
2016-03-28  8:28   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-28 14:35     ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-03-27 21:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] drivers/bus: make arm-ccn.c driver " Paul Gortmaker
2016-03-29 11:45   ` Will Deacon
2016-03-29 11:53     ` Pawel Moll
2016-03-29 12:30       ` Will Deacon
2016-03-29 13:11         ` Pawel Moll
2016-03-29 13:14       ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-03-29 11:38 ` [PATCH 0/4] drivers/bus: remove unused modular code from non-modular drivers Will Deacon

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