Re: [PATCH 0/2] gpio: sifive: Module support

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Mon Jul 17 2023 - 18:18:43 EST


On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:53:55 PDT (-0700), samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
With of_irq_count() exported, the SiFive GPIO driver can be built as a
module. This helps to minimize the size of a multiplatform kernel, and
is required by some downstream distributions (Android GKI).


Samuel Holland (2):
of/irq: Export of_irq_count()
gpio: sifive: Allow building the driver as a module

drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/gpio/gpio-sifive.c | 4 +++-
drivers/of/irq.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I guess we probably should have just done that the first time around? Either way it seems reasonable to me, aside from sorting out the OF stuff.