Paul, On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:41:50 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: > > drivers/pci/host/Kconfig:config PCI_MVEBU > drivers/pci/host/Kconfig: bool "Marvell EBU PCIe controller" > > ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. > > Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that > when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only. > > Since module_platform_driver() uses the same init level priority as > builtin_platform_driver() the init ordering remains unchanged with > this commit. > > We don't have to disallow a driver unbind, since that is already > done for us in this driver. > > Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code. > > We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information > was (or is now ) contained at the top of the file in the comments. > > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c | 11 ++++------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) I think the general direction should rather be to change the PCI subsystem to make it possible for those drivers to be built as modules. However, since this is quite certainly a much larger effort, there is no reason to not clean things up as they are today, so: Reviewed-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html