From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
To: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com>,
Aisheng Dong <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>,
Andy Duan <fugang.duan@nxp.com>,
Anson Huang <anson.huang@nxp.com>,
Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>,
Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>,
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Cc: dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V2 3/9] clk: imx: Support building SCU clock driver as module
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:27:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <159262367025.62212.11651547971712516448@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM6PR04MB4966B94CFAE642E6AF5AEF79809B0@AM6PR04MB4966.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
Quoting Aisheng Dong (2020-06-17 18:58:51)
> > From: Anson Huang <anson.huang@nxp.com>
> > > > +obj-$(CONFIG_MXC_CLK_SCU) += mxc-clk-scu.o
> > >
> > > Like i.MX pinctrl, I'm not sure if it's really necessary to build core
> > > libraries as modules. Probably the simplest way is only building
> > > platform drivers part as module. And leave those core libraries built in kernel.
> > > This may make the code a bit cleaner.
> > >
> >
> > Will discuss this with Linaro guys about it, previous requirement I received is all
> > SoC specific modules need to be built as module.
> >
>
> Okay. AFAIK it's not conflict.
> You still make drivers into modules.
> Only difference is for those common libraries part, we don't convert them into module
> Which is less meaningless.
>
What is the benefit of making the core part of the SoC driver not a
module? From the module perspective it should be perfectly fine to make
it a module as well, and then depmod will sort out loading modules in
the right order.
This is for android right?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-20 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-09 7:32 [PATCH V2 0/9] Support building i.MX8 SoCs clock driver as module Anson Huang
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 1/9] clk: composite: Export clk_hw_register_composite() Anson Huang
2020-06-17 10:10 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-17 12:31 ` Anson Huang
2020-06-18 2:05 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-20 3:22 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 2/9] ARM: imx: Select MXC_CLK for ARCH_MXC Anson Huang
2020-06-17 10:34 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-17 12:36 ` Anson Huang
2020-06-18 3:09 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-18 3:18 ` Anson Huang
2020-06-18 3:58 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 3/9] clk: imx: Support building SCU clock driver as module Anson Huang
2020-06-17 10:44 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-17 12:26 ` Anson Huang
2020-06-18 1:58 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-20 3:27 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
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[not found] ` <AM6PR04MB49664A8400CA0B0F7321EDDE80940@AM6PR04MB4966.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
2020-06-24 0:57 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-24 2:19 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-24 2:36 ` Anson Huang
2020-06-24 2:59 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-24 22:43 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-29 7:04 ` Dong Aisheng
2020-06-29 8:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-06-29 21:05 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-07-02 6:15 ` Anson Huang
2020-06-30 3:01 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-30 4:41 ` Anson Huang
2020-06-24 7:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-06-24 9:18 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 4/9] clk: imx: Support building i.MX common " Anson Huang
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 5/9] clk: imx8mm: Support module build Anson Huang
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 6/9] clk: imx8mn: " Anson Huang
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 7/9] clk: imx8mp: " Anson Huang
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 8/9] clk: imx8mq: " Anson Huang
2020-06-09 7:32 ` [PATCH V2 9/9] clk: imx8qxp: " Anson Huang
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