From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753273AbcB2Ivj (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 03:51:39 -0500 Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:50966 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752676AbcB2Ivh (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 03:51:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code,Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code To: David Miller References: <1456110792-21771-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1456110792-21771-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <56D02FB8.90803@ti.com> <20160226.122112.1169840448330570848.davem@davemloft.net> CC: , , , , From: Tomi Valkeinen Message-ID: <56D40691.6030002@ti.com> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 10:51:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160226.122112.1169840448330570848.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tm63m6t9h9xjDofsvDsVwOcL8ccTrhKDG" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --tm63m6t9h9xjDofsvDsVwOcL8ccTrhKDG Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="6ukDhQ3aGS2soHdhnwofaxEC03hE59ima" From: Tomi Valkeinen To: David Miller Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, plagnioj@jcrosoft.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <56D40691.6030002@ti.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code,Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code References: <1456110792-21771-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1456110792-21771-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <56D02FB8.90803@ti.com> <20160226.122112.1169840448330570848.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20160226.122112.1169840448330570848.davem@davemloft.net> --6ukDhQ3aGS2soHdhnwofaxEC03hE59ima Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 26/02/16 19:21, David Miller wrote: > From: Tomi Valkeinen > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:58:00 +0200 >=20 >> While doing this, did you just go forward removing the module support,= >> or did you check if it would be trivial to make the driver build as a >> module? I wouldn't be surprised if in some cases all that would need t= o >> be done is change the Kconfig's bool to tristate. >=20 > I think what he is doing is reasonable, and none of these sparc drivers= > have any reason to be built modular. You need them to have any bootup > console whatsoever, so they have to be built in statically to be > usable at all. I disagree. Having drivers buildable as modules is always good, even if the normal use case would be to have them as built-in. > I plan to apply this patch series to my sparc tree as-is. They are fbdev patches without any dependency to sparc afaics. So let's apply them via fbdev tree. Tomi --6ukDhQ3aGS2soHdhnwofaxEC03hE59ima-- --tm63m6t9h9xjDofsvDsVwOcL8ccTrhKDG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJW1AaRAAoJEPo9qoy8lh71UygP/jf4TLfp63mxTsCDIeD11pX5 26XL0PikiNhS+I30fO5El8C3fPRIdrCGkTk/z9foT5LIneRjYl4catVZOhd0vTlw RiaLUuXSs57bQH4U0fJA9Ch3umtgbzs0x/290lppGfzFgmjZsqOc2WkEF3PgtftL RWDDCJbRNFKtP4DxX8eVBg7jnAJsxHwGyvuM7O0NkNUlqBrkcO3x/9AiAYC2cbQ3 /9F6LPMj0ZBRBlZiNzdKym6OQUWo0H57j3v05X2rNRKhWekZZ1bEqpuh5mewPogg 068FVExXtIKW/VwGc4Zj1Zv73j7gnypleDajSHNETiwwU7afMc+Wi1p/7PLjfR/i CcfeaQrwTicDC/BAS+1GFVr7oaBovtgFxgdHpWONhSdOnqWtF8rWz+mDksx1IiLS yh+U2ctVeH0CZNWRW1nB9ahFCWIuRBfPf+H9l6tn5ETs//I0IcxBKrLvcnV+Tyeu uS4bhL/+eFojMCiJS/Ty5on5CviBszRpk3CJYWhn/Szmt2mhkX8lzMnWCKbWBic9 OtNjg+0CVF1+peDNiSpF/6ufWkOMgzhB7gGmlwyLcKUAE9UKhAYIrF59nVycZ+Dz CqIdvOQEYATe9OTffNGDfB/OW2hE+yVkYC/VDOOdys2l2aSsPEqNcCGxNcij5lJa JSu14Mh35jFnB8xvrAut =IYBC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tm63m6t9h9xjDofsvDsVwOcL8ccTrhKDG--