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

[Emil Renner Berthing]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 10:07, Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This can reduce the kernel image size in multiplatform configurations.

I don't mind this, but booting without this driver also means there is
no uart for debug output or any other peripheral until the kernel gets
to the initrd to load the driver. Does the earlycon console work all
the way until we reach the initrd? Otherwise I can't imagine many
scenarios where configuring this as a module is desirable.

> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
>  drivers/clk/sifive/Kconfig       | 2 +-
>  drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c | 8 +++-----
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/sifive/Kconfig b/drivers/clk/sifive/Kconfig
> index 2322f634a910..49597d95602e 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/sifive/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/clk/sifive/Kconfig
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ menuconfig CLK_SIFIVE
>  if CLK_SIFIVE
>
>  config CLK_SIFIVE_PRCI
> -       bool "PRCI driver for SiFive SoCs"
> +       tristate "PRCI driver for SiFive SoCs"
>         default ARCH_SIFIVE
>         select RESET_CONTROLLER
>         select RESET_SIMPLE
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c b/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c
> index e317f3454e93..8c67d1a7c8df 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/sifive/sifive-prci.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
>  #include <linux/clkdev.h>
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
>  #include <linux/io.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/of_device.h>
>  #include "sifive-prci.h"
>  #include "fu540-prci.h"
> @@ -618,9 +619,6 @@ static struct platform_driver sifive_prci_driver = {
>         },
>         .probe = sifive_prci_probe,
>  };
> +module_platform_driver(sifive_prci_driver);
>
> -static int __init sifive_prci_init(void)
> -{
> -       return platform_driver_register(&sifive_prci_driver);
> -}
> -core_initcall(sifive_prci_init);

Maybe also add the MODULE_AUTHOR() and MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros
while you're at it.

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --
> 2.40.1
>
>
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