Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: sifive: Allow building the driver as a module

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed Jul 19 2023 - 07:29:58 EST


On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 10:54 PM Samuel Holland
<samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This can reduce the kernel image size in multiplatform configurations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/gpio/gpio-sifive.c | 4 +++-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
> index e382dfebad7c..1a8e8a8c85d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
> @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ config GPIO_SAMA5D2_PIOBU
> maintain their value during backup/self-refresh.
>
> config GPIO_SIFIVE
> - bool "SiFive GPIO support"
> + tristate "SiFive GPIO support"
> depends on OF_GPIO
> select IRQ_DOMAIN_HIERARCHY
> select GPIO_GENERIC
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-sifive.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-sifive.c
> index 745e5f67254e..5941a817491c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-sifive.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-sifive.c
> @@ -277,4 +277,6 @@ static struct platform_driver sifive_gpio_driver = {
> .of_match_table = sifive_gpio_match,
> },
> };
> -builtin_platform_driver(sifive_gpio_driver)
> +module_platform_driver(sifive_gpio_driver)
> +
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --
> 2.40.1
>

This looks good but please follow Andy's suggestion and convert all
of_*() uses in the driver to generic helpers, then drop patch 1.

Bart