In a recent patch series that aimed to remove code related to module unload for PCI support that was simply non modular, the discussion led to people wanting to keep the code and push towards taking the steps needed to support moving it towards tristate instead[1]. Here, we take step one, which is simply making the Kconfig change and then dealing with any build fallout or modpost fallout. What amounts to essentially a sanity build test. To be clear, these have not been runtime validated; that will need to be done by those with access to real hardware. However, the changes are not anything that should disrupt any existing built-in validation, so real world users should not be impacted by this change. We start with a smaller family of drivers; those that actively select PCI_DW, as a nice self contained group to test the waters and see if everyone is still good with this approach before investing more time on a wider scale to other pci/host/ code blocks. As such the drivers here share a dependency on having the same group of functions exported in order to successfully complete modpost. In addition, we have to stray outside drivers/pci to add exports in two places; once for an ARM fault handler, and once for an OF variable. The pci-keystone-dw.c instance was handled separately because it consists of two source files that need their own group of driver specific exports above and beyond the "shared" ones. Then we convert the Kconfig for all remaining at once; we could have done it on a per driver basis for ease of revert if anyone really objects, but since it would be a one line change, that seemed like not a real concern. Build testing was done on the linux-next tree for arm allmodconfig. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160108203102.GH5354@localhost -- Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@xxxxxx> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Paul Gortmaker (5): ARM: add EXPORT_SYMBOL of hook_fault_code for PCI host modularization drivers/of: add EXPORT_SYMBOL to of_irq_count drivers/pci: export dw syms enabling board specific PCI code to be tristate drivers/pci: make host/pci-keystone-dw.c modular drivers/pci: make most of the PCI_DW drivers modular arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 3 ++- drivers/of/irq.c | 1 + drivers/pci/host/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++-------- drivers/pci/host/pci-keystone-dw.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c | 7 +++++++ 5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.6.1 -- 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
