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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mfd: intel_msic: Make it explicitly non-modular
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:11:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160707081130.GI23527@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160706163800.GH26134@windriver.com>

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:38:00PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [Re: [PATCH 3/6] mfd: intel_msic: Make it explicitly non-modular] On 05/07/2016 (Tue 13:08) Mika Westerberg wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 09:25:41PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > > The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> > > 
> > > drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_INTEL_MSIC
> > > drivers/mfd/Kconfig:    bool "Intel MSIC"
> > 
> > I would prefer if it could be turned to tristate instead. I don't see
> > any reasons why it should only be builtin.
> 
> If I change it to tristate, it is still impossible to choose =m for it
> unless I revert your earlier commit forcing it to be built in.
> 
> commit 15a713df4145ad2540f8d84c3f4de930806f6151
> Author: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Jan 26 17:35:05 2012 +0000
> 
>     x86/config: Select MSIC MFD driver on Intel Medfield platform
>     
>     On Intel Medfield platform we use MSIC MFD driver to create
>     necessary platform devices so it is essential to have the driver
>     compiled into the kernel.
> 
> If I revert that, then it is possible to choose =m and it compiles.
> (haven't completed modpost yet.. so may be missing symbols...)

I think we can revert that and make it modular. Adding Andy just in case
I'm missing something obvious.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-07  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-05  1:25 [PATCH 0/6] mfd: trivial demodularization of non-modular drivers Paul Gortmaker
2016-07-05  1:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] mfd: altera-a10sr: make it explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker
2016-08-05 12:57   ` Lee Jones
2016-08-23 20:56     ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-08-31 11:43       ` Lee Jones
2016-07-05  1:25 ` [PATCH 2/6] mfd: as3722: Make " Paul Gortmaker
2016-07-05  5:48   ` Laxman Dewangan
2016-07-06 16:45     ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-08-05 12:56       ` Lee Jones
2016-08-05 13:50         ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-08-08  9:14           ` Lee Jones
2016-08-08 14:01             ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-07-05  1:25 ` [PATCH 3/6] mfd: intel_msic: " Paul Gortmaker
2016-07-05 10:08   ` Mika Westerberg
2016-07-06 16:38     ` Paul Gortmaker
2016-07-07  8:11       ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2016-07-07 10:26         ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-07-07 10:33           ` Mika Westerberg
2016-08-05 12:57   ` Lee Jones
2016-07-05  1:25 ` [PATCH 4/6] mfd: smsc-ece1099: " Paul Gortmaker
2016-08-05 12:57   ` Lee Jones
2016-07-05  1:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] mfd: sun6i-prcm: " Paul Gortmaker
2016-07-05  6:24   ` Maxime Ripard
2016-08-05 12:57   ` Lee Jones
2016-07-05  1:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] mfd: twl-core: " Paul Gortmaker
2016-08-05 12:58   ` Lee Jones
2016-09-12 14:40 [PATCH v2 0/6] mfd: trivial demodularization of non-modular drivers Paul Gortmaker
2016-09-12 14:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] mfd: intel_msic: Make it explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker
2016-09-13  8:52   ` Lee Jones

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