Re: [PATCH] gpio: htc-egpio: Make it explicitly non-modular

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:config HTC_EGPIO
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:   bool "HTC EGPIO support"
>
> ...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 it allows us to drop the ".remove"
> code for non-modular drivers.
>
> Since module_init was not in use by this code, the init ordering
> remains unchanged with this commit.
>
> 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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> [we had all these fixed for gpio, but then this file recently moved from
>  the mfd subsystem over here to gpio....]

Sorry about the fuzz!

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij