Re: [PATCH 0/2] drivers/pci: use builtin_platform_driver in renesas

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 07:59:07PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> These two commits are extracted from what was a larger series[1] of
> demodularization in PCI host code that was bool Kconfig.
> 
> With the other commits, there was some mixed opinions whether we
> should make it explicitly non-modular or move towards making it
> functionally working as a tristate in order to reduce the size of
> built-in code for multi-platform kernels.
> 
> However with the renesas changes, there was no ".remove" and no
> "module_exit" code stripped out ; it is just a straight 1:1 mapping
> of the modular macros onto what they become in the non-modular case
> anyway -- meaning the runtime remains unchanged.

Is there any reason these drivers can't be made modular?  I'd rather
do that, if we can.

Bjorn
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