From: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
linux-tegra <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Support building gpio-tegra driver as loadable module
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 02:56:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24d46928-8c57-acba-f9cf-49afbe4c983c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZTyBuz240iYuvi91k3dLKKXX=4DNxFEBP7mSNB58XtDw@mail.gmail.com>
24.01.2021 01:50, Linus Walleij пишет:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:59 PM Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This small series adds modularization support to the gpio-tegra driver,
>> i.e. driver now could be built as a loadable kernel module.
>>
>> Dmitry Osipenko (3):
>> gpio: tegra: Use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile()
>> gpio: tegra: Clean up whitespaces in tegra_gpio_driver
>> gpio: tegra: Support building driver as a loadable module
>
> As these three patches clearly make the kernel look better after
> than before:
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>
> However when we are doing this I would strongly encourage you
> to also make a patch implementing remove() so you can insmod
> rmmod the module at runtime.
The remove() is optional for drivers, it doesn't prevent the rmmod.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-23 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-22 18:55 [PATCH v1 0/3] Support building gpio-tegra driver as loadable module Dmitry Osipenko
2021-01-22 18:55 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] gpio: tegra: Use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() Dmitry Osipenko
2021-01-22 18:55 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] gpio: tegra: Clean up whitespaces in tegra_gpio_driver Dmitry Osipenko
2021-01-22 18:55 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] gpio: tegra: Support building driver as a loadable module Dmitry Osipenko
2021-01-23 22:50 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] Support building gpio-tegra driver as " Linus Walleij
2021-01-23 23:56 ` Dmitry Osipenko [this message]
2021-01-24 22:46 ` Linus Walleij
2021-01-25 14:08 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2021-01-27 14:41 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
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