Re: [PATCH v1 3/8] PCI: microchip: enable building this driver as a module

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Hello Daire,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 04:55:51PM +0100, daire.mcnamara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Enable building this driver as a module. The expected use case is the
> driver is built as a module, is installed when needed, and cannot be
> removed once installed.
> 
> The remove() callback is not implemented as removing a driver with
> INTx and MSI interrupt handling is inherently unsafe.

The relevant thing here is not that there is no .remove callback (which
doesn't make the driver non-removable) but that the driver has
.suppress_bind_attrs = true.
 
With that properly mentioned in the changelog, the patch is fine for me.

Best regards
Uwe

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