Re: [RFC][PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmpd: Allow RPMPD driver to be loaded as a module

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:32 PM Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 04 Mar 21:42 PST 2020, John Stultz wrote:
>
> > Allow the rpmpd driver to be loaded as a module.
> >
...
> > diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmpd.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmpd.c
> > index 2b1834c5609a..9c0834913f3f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmpd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmpd.c
> > @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/init.h>
> >  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> >  #include <linux/mutex.h>
> > +#include <linux/module.h>
> >  #include <linux/pm_domain.h>
> >  #include <linux/of.h>
> >  #include <linux/of_device.h>
> > @@ -226,6 +227,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id rpmpd_match_table[] = {
> >       { .compatible = "qcom,qcs404-rpmpd", .data = &qcs404_desc },
> >       { }
> >  };
> > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, rpmpd_match_table);
> >
> >  static int rpmpd_send_enable(struct rpmpd *pd, bool enable)
> >  {
> > @@ -421,4 +423,5 @@ static int __init rpmpd_init(void)
> >  {
> >       return platform_driver_register(&rpmpd_driver);
> >  }
> > -core_initcall(rpmpd_init);
> > +module_init(rpmpd_init);
>
> Can't you keep this as core_initcall(), for the times when its builtin?

Sure!

> Additionally I believe you should add a call to unregister the driver,
> and drop the suppress_bind_attrs.

So, I sort of took the simple swing here as adding it as a module w/o
a unregister makes it a "permanent" module. It loads but cannot be
unloaded. I know this isn't ideal, but it's also a big improvement
over it being limited to it being required as a built-in.  I'll take a
look at it though to see if its workable to be removable.

> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> "GPL v2" per the SPDX?

Ah. Thanks, fixed!

thanks again for the review
-john