From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: QCOM_SCM: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:24:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPrRDrmlmF4ws4DQ@yoga> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGETcx8Yw2QDYBYNpqVt_kPHnokFR+qinr5GAJ1byVWMuc3PLQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed 21 Jul 16:07 CDT 2021, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:23 PM Bjorn Andersson
> <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed 21 Jul 13:00 CDT 2021, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:24 AM John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 4:54 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 04:53:20AM +0000, John Stultz wrote:
> > > > > > Allow the qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module.
> > > > >
> > > > > This feels like a regression, it should be allowed to be a module.
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry, I'm not sure I'm following you, Greg. This patch is trying
> > > > to enable the driver to be able to be loaded as a module.
> > >
> > > I think the mix up might be that Greg mentally read "permanent module"
> > > as "builtin"?
> > >
> > > "permanent module" is just something that can't be unloaded once it's
> > > loaded. It's not "builtin".
> > >
> >
> > Afaict there's nothing in this patch that makes it more or less
> > permanent.
>
> The lack of a module_exit() makes it a permanent module. If you do
> lsmod, it'll mark this as "[permanent]".
>
Cool, I didn't know that.
Thanks,
Bjorn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-23 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-07 4:53 [PATCH] firmware: QCOM_SCM: Allow qcom_scm driver to be loadable as a permenent module John Stultz
2021-07-17 5:01 ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-07-19 19:00 ` John Stultz
2021-07-19 19:36 ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-07-19 21:53 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-07-21 20:13 ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-07-21 11:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-21 17:24 ` John Stultz
2021-07-21 18:00 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-07-21 20:23 ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-07-21 21:07 ` Saravana Kannan
2021-07-23 14:24 ` Bjorn Andersson [this message]
2021-07-23 12:21 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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