On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: > > drivers/misc/Kconfig:config ARM_CHARLCD > drivers/misc/Kconfig: bool "ARM Ltd. Character LCD Driver" > > ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. > > Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that > when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only. > > We explicitly disallow a driver unbind, since that doesn't have a > sensible use case anyway, and this driver did not have a ".remove" > function coded for non-modular drivers either. > > Since module_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as > builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with > this commit. > > We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that. > > We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information > is already contained at the top of the file in the comments. > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> > Cc: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> I would consider the modular code a copy/paste error. Unfortunately not uncommon in the kernel :( Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> Thanks for doing this and keeping the kernel clean. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
