This series of commits is a part of a larger project to ensure people don't reference modular support functions in non-modular code. Overall there was roughly 5k lines of dead code in the kernel due to this. So far we've fixed several areas, like tty, x86, net, gpio ... and we continue to work on other areas.
There are several reasons to not use module support for code that can never be built as a module, but the big ones are: (1) it is easy to accidentally code up unused module_exit and remove code (2) it can be misleading when reading the source, thinking it can be modular when the Makefile and/or Kconfig prohibit it (3) it requires the include of the module.h header file which in turn includes nearly everything else. Two of the changes are essentially source only -- the resuting module will be binary equivalent. Only the FSL driver has unused code in addition to the use of modular macros that get converted. Note the FSL SOC driver just appeared in linux-next and so this series won't apply on Linus' master branch. These commits were applied to linux-next and build tested there. Paul. --- Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnu...@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> Cc: Scott Wood <o...@buserror.net> Cc: Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.red...@gmail.com> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hans...@linaro.org> Cc: Yangbo Lu <yangbo...@nxp.com> Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-te...@vger.kernel.org Paul Gortmaker (3): soc: sunxi: make sunxi_sram explicitly non-modular soc: tegra: make fuse-tegra explicitly non-modular soc: fsl: make guts driver explicitly non-modular drivers/soc/fsl/guts.c | 17 ++--------------- drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c | 9 ++------- drivers/soc/tegra/fuse/fuse-tegra.c | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) -- 2.10.1