Re: [PATCH V4 4/9] pinctrl: imx8mn: Support building as module

[Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxx>]

Maybe this is obvious but I would really like to see an explanation

of why we are switching from arch_initcall to platform_init.

Commit message act as documentation  for the reviewers.

On 10.06.2020 10:57, Anson Huang wrote:
> Support building i.MX8MN pinctrl driver as module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> No change.
> ---
>   drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig          |  2 +-
>   drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mn.c | 10 ++++------
>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig b/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig
> index 556adc3..fe3e49c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/Kconfig
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ config PINCTRL_IMX8MM
>   	  Say Y here to enable the imx8mm pinctrl driver
>   
>   config PINCTRL_IMX8MN
> -	bool "IMX8MN pinctrl driver"
> +	tristate "IMX8MN pinctrl driver"
>   	depends on ARCH_MXC
>   	select PINCTRL_IMX
>   	help
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mn.c b/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mn.c
> index 100ed8c..b6db780 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mn.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx8mn.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
>   
>   #include <linux/err.h>
>   #include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
>   #include <linux/of.h>
>   #include <linux/pinctrl/pinctrl.h>
>   #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> @@ -326,6 +327,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id imx8mn_pinctrl_of_match[] = {
>   	{ .compatible = "fsl,imx8mn-iomuxc", .data = &imx8mn_pinctrl_info, },
>   	{ /* sentinel */ }
>   };
> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, imx8mn_pinctrl_of_match);
>   
>   static int imx8mn_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
> @@ -340,9 +342,5 @@ static struct platform_driver imx8mn_pinctrl_driver = {
>   	},
>   	.probe = imx8mn_pinctrl_probe,
>   };
> -
> -static int __init imx8mn_pinctrl_init(void)
> -{
> -	return platform_driver_register(&imx8mn_pinctrl_driver);
> -}
> -arch_initcall(imx8mn_pinctrl_init);
> +module_platform_driver(imx8mn_pinctrl_driver);
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");