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From: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Kevin Brodsky <Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com>,
	Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	linux-clk <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] power/reset: vexpress: Support building as a module
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:31:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200428193124.xe53lgorhc6uyffv@earth.universe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_Jsq+Hk_WuK=c+eHi1Kz3EPzm=zOw2ctETXEySPH1WgAGjug@mail.gmail.com>


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Hi,

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:23:13PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:24 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:08 PM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Enable building the VExpress power-off/reset driver as a module.
> >
> > Your change allows loading and unloading the driver, but actually
> > unloading is a bug with the current implementation, as there is no
> > 'release' handler to undo the _vexpress_register_restart_handler()
> > function.
> 
> And also to save and restore pm_power_off...

I'm fine with providing Acked-by for this for merging through a
different tree or taking it through my tree.

> > It should not be hard to add a release handler, or you could just
> > mark the function as non-unloadable by only having a module_init()
> > but no module_exit() function.
> >
> > I suppose if you do the latter, there should also be a suppress_bind_attrs
> > flag in the device_driver. This is a preexisting bug.
> 
> I may just drop this patch. I wrote it and then realized I don't need
> it as PSCI can be used instead.

So is the driver useless on arm64 and depends can be reduced to
arm32?

-- Sebastian

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-28 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-19 17:07 [PATCH 00/17] Modularizing Versatile Express Rob Herring
2020-04-19 17:07 ` [PATCH 01/17] ARM: vexpress: Move vexpress_flags_set() into arch code Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:17   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22 10:15   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-22 19:04   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-19 17:07 ` [PATCH 02/17] arm64: vexpress: Don't select CONFIG_POWER_RESET_VEXPRESS Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22 10:16   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-22 19:08   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-19 17:07 ` [PATCH 03/17] arm64: vexpress: Don't select CONFIG_VEXPRESS_CONFIG Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22 19:09   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-19 17:07 ` [PATCH 04/17] power/reset: vexpress: Support building as a module Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:23   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-20 17:23     ` Rob Herring
2020-04-28 19:31       ` Sebastian Reichel [this message]
2020-04-22 19:11   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-19 17:07 ` [PATCH 05/17] clk: versatile: Kill CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_VERSATILE Rob Herring
2020-04-20  6:44   ` Linus Walleij
2020-04-22  9:47   ` Stephen Boyd
2020-04-22 22:34     ` Rob Herring
2020-04-22 19:17   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-19 17:07 ` [PATCH 06/17] clk: versatile: Only enable SP810 on 32-bit by default Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:26   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-20 17:48     ` Rob Herring
2020-04-20 20:07       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22  9:48   ` Stephen Boyd
2020-04-22 10:20   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-22 20:52   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-23 15:38     ` Rob Herring
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 07/17] clk: vexpress-osc: Use the devres clock API variants Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:26   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22  9:51   ` Stephen Boyd
2020-04-22 10:21   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-22 20:56   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 08/17] clk: vexpress-osc: Support building as a module Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:27   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-20 17:18     ` Rob Herring
2020-04-22 11:01   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-22 21:08   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-23 13:45     ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-23 15:53       ` Rob Herring
2020-04-23 16:58         ` Sudeep Holla
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 09/17] mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Drop selecting CONFIG_CLKSRC_MMIO Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:29   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22 11:02   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 10/17] mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Drop unused syscon child devices Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:30   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22 11:18   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 11/17] mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Use devres API variants Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:31   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-22 11:18   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 12/17] mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Support building as a module Rob Herring
2020-04-20 15:32   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-04-20 17:05     ` Rob Herring
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 13/17] bus: vexpress-config: Merge vexpress-syscfg into vexpress-config Rob Herring
2020-04-20 11:45   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-04-22 11:22   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 14/17] bus: vexpress-config: simplify config bus probing Rob Herring
2020-04-22 11:58   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 15/17] vexpress: Move site master init to vexpress-config bus Rob Herring
2020-04-22  9:51   ` Stephen Boyd
2020-04-22 12:03     ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-23  0:54     ` Rob Herring
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 16/17] bus: vexpress-config: Support building as module Rob Herring
2020-04-22 12:04   ` Liviu Dudau
2020-04-19 17:08 ` [PATCH 17/17] ARM: vexpress: Don't select VEXPRESS_CONFIG Rob Herring
2020-04-22 12:05   ` Liviu Dudau

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