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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/media: make atomisp vlv2_plat_clock explicitly non-modular
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:12:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170414081242.GA5096@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170413015755.4533-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

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@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-14  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-13  1:57 [PATCH] staging/media: make atomisp vlv2_plat_clock explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker
2017-04-14  8:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-04-14 15:57   ` Paul Gortmaker
2017-04-14 20:42   ` Alan Cox

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