On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No matter how we build the individual pinctrl drivers we will always > need the pinctrl framework in a multi-soc zImage; so I can't see that > we gain anything from being able to compile PINCTRL as a module. I discussed this matter with Christian on IRC and I believe we could basically do "select PINCTRL" on ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM as the vast majority of multiplatforms appear to be using this anyway, this would make the submenu for pin control pop up in menuconfig for this, and make it possible to move different subdrivers to modules if desired. MULTIPLATFORM does not seem to be about saving footprint bytes on a very fine-granular level anyway, more about doing the module loading/unloading approach to footprint. (That drivers such as clk, regulator, pin control, GPIO, irqchip are usually impossible to rmmod as their tentacles will invariably be in all drivers everywhere is another issue, but this approach will solve modular *loading* atleast.) Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
