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: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:08:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6075dec-c019-3701-4d3d-d3327aef17d7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdaR9+mxXXjRADG4+qaGiqgwVRPcCAo-5nZwXXASYfs9+g@mail.gmail.com>
25.01.2021 01:46, Linus Walleij пишет:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:56 AM Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Aha you mean all resources are managed (devm_*) so that
> rmmod/insmod works fine with this driver?
yes
> OK then! :) the work is finished.
The work on the modularization indeed should be finished, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 2:52 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
2021-01-24 22:46 ` Linus Walleij
2021-01-25 14:08 ` Dmitry Osipenko [this message]
2021-01-27 14:41 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
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