Re: [PATCH] gpio: add ETRAXFS GPIO driver

[Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 03:59:27PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 00:27 +0200, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_ETRAXFS)	+= gpio-etraxfs.o
> 
> GPIO_ETRAXFS is a bool symbol, so gpio-etraxfs.o can only be built-in,
> right?

Right.

> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-etraxfs.c
> 
> > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, etraxfs_gpio_of_table);
> 
> > +module_platform_driver(etraxfs_gpio_driver);
> 
> (A patch was submitted that would allow built-in only code to use
> builtin_platform_driver(), see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/10/125 .) 

Thanks, good to know.

> 
> > +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ETRAX FS GPIO driver");
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> 
> But the code this patch adds contains a bit of module specific
> boilerplate. Was it perhaps your intention to make GPIO_ETRAXFS
> tristate?

No, the intention is to have it boolean as it is now.  I'll remove the
unnecessary lines.
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