On 18/10/2015 at 18:21:13 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote : > The one common thread here for all the patches is that we also > scrap the .remove functions which would only be used for module > unload (impossible) and driver unbind. For the drivers here, there > doesn't seem to be a sensible unbind use case (vs. e.g. a multiport > PCI ethernet driver where one port is unbound and passed through to > a kvm guest or similar). Hence we just explicitly disallow any > driver unbind operations to help prevent root from doing something > illogical to the machine that they could have done previously. > > We've already done this for drivers/tty/serial/mpsc.c previously. > > Build tested for allmodconfig on ARM64 and powerpc for tty/tty-testing. > So, how does this actually build test atmel_serial? A proper solution would be to actually make it a tristate and allow building as a module. I think it currently fails because of console_initcall() but that is certainly fixable. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
