On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 05:59:40PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > 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/[email protected] > > --- > > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> > Cc: Jingoo Han <[email protected]> > Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> > Cc: Kukjin Kim <[email protected]> > Cc: Ley Foon Tan <[email protected]> > Cc: Lucas Stach <[email protected]> > Cc: Pratyush Anand <[email protected]> > Cc: Richard Zhu <[email protected]> > Cc: Tom Long Nguyen <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > > 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(-)
I applied all these to pci/demodularize for v4.9, thanks, Paul!

