This is another group of commits that was chosen since they really don't change anything even at a binary object file level ; they just replace module_init with device_initcall (which are identical), and remove some MODULE_<blah> tags that are no-ops in code. So the run time regression risk is zero here.
More specifically, we are doing the following to these PCI files that currently can only be built-in: -- remove the include of module.h ; replace it with init.h as req'd -- drop instances of MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE which is a no-op built-in. -- replace module_init (if present) with device_initcall, which is functionally identical once CPP has processed the source. -- drop instances of MODULE_LICENSE, MODULE_AUTHOR, MODULE_DESCRIPTION while ensuring the contained info is present in the file comments. Build tested for allmodconfig on several arch, including ARM and ARM-64 on a recent linux-next baseline. Some non-modular PCI files still remain with unused __exit and/or .remove functions. Those will be dealt with in a separate series after this. Also note that we looked into modularizing some of the PCI_DW stuff at an earlier time[1] but that ran into problems such as trying to create unwind for hook_fault_code etc. that wasn't easily solved. So we just go with keeping the code runtime functionally equivalent to what it was. Paul. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454889644-27830-1-git-send-email-paul.gortma...@windriver.com --- Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com> Cc: Jingoo Han <jingooh...@gmail.com> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlow...@samsung.com> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kg...@kernel.org> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lf...@altera.com> Cc: Lucas Stach <l.st...@pengutronix.de> Cc: Pratyush Anand <pratyush.an...@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Zhu <richard....@freescale.com> Cc: Tom Long Nguyen <tom.l.ngu...@intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: r...@lists.rocketboards.org Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-samsung-...@vger.kernel.org Paul Gortmaker (8): PCI: altera: make msi explicitly non-modular PCI: altera: make it explicitly non-modular PCI: imx6: make it explicitly non-modular PCI: portdrv: make it explicitly non-modular PCI: spear13xx: make it explicitly non-modular PCI: designware: make host support explicitly non-modular PCI: exynos: make host support explicitly non-modular PCI: generic: make host-common explicitly non-modular drivers/pci/host/pci-exynos.c | 7 +------ drivers/pci/host/pci-host-common.c | 7 ++----- drivers/pci/host/pci-imx6.c | 9 +-------- drivers/pci/host/pcie-altera-msi.c | 10 +++++----- drivers/pci/host/pcie-altera.c | 12 +++++------- drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c | 5 ----- drivers/pci/host/pcie-spear13xx.c | 11 ++--------- drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c | 8 +------- 8 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) -- 2.8.4