Re: [PATCH] serial: mps2-uart: make driver explicitly non-modular

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On 07/06/16 15:33, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [[PATCH] serial: mps2-uart: make driver explicitly non-modular] On 07/06/2016 (Tue 14:47) Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> 
>> mps2-uart is currently selected by the arch code, which implies is not
>> being built as a module by anyone.
> 
> Maybe "depends on" is more accurate, since we have:
> 
> 
> config SERIAL_MPS2_UART
>         bool "MPS2 UART port"
>         depends on ARM || COMPILE_TEST
> 
> ...so even if people are not using ARM, they can still build it if they
> have selected COMPILE_TEST.
> 
>>
>> Follow 89ebc27 "drivers/tty: make serial/mvebu-uart.c explicitly
>> non-modular" as an example of moving modular code to non-modular.
> 
> It is good to reference other commits, but the commit message should
> give enough detail to have the full meaning stand-alone even if someone
> doesn't have reference to cited ones.
> 

Ok. Just wanted to avoid copy-and-paste, since there is nothing new
except s/module_init/arch_initcall :)

> Also it is good to give at least 12/40 chars of the existing commit ID
> since the kernel has so many commits now that any less than 12 has a
> risk of being ambiguous.  There is ./scripts/checkpatch.pl that some
> people find useful for detecting common oversights.

Hmm... it is what I got from checkpatch

total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 61 lines checked

Anyway, thanks for feedback - I'll update and send v2 shortly.

Cheers
Vladimir

> 
>>
>> Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c |   29 ++++-------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c
>> index da9e27d..492ec4b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c
>> @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
>>  /*
>> + * MPS2 UART driver
>> + *
>>   * Copyright (C) 2015 ARM Limited
>>   *
>>   * Author: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>
>> @@ -17,7 +19,6 @@
>>  #include <linux/console.h>
>>  #include <linux/io.h>
>>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>> -#include <linux/module.h>
> 
> You should replace this with init.h since your driver uses "__init" and
> the file does not have that include already.  We shouldn't rely on any
> implicit include paths, even if they just happen to work.
> 
>>  #include <linux/of_device.h>
>>  #include <linux/of.h>
>>  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>> @@ -569,30 +570,20 @@ static int mps2_serial_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> -static int mps2_serial_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> -{
>> -	struct mps2_uart_port *mps_port = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>> -
>> -	uart_remove_one_port(&mps2_uart_driver, &mps_port->port);
>> -
>> -	return 0;
>> -}
>> -
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_OF
>>  static const struct of_device_id mps2_match[] = {
>>  	{ .compatible = "arm,mps2-uart", },
>>  	{},
>>  };
>> -MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, mps2_match);
>>  #endif
>>  
>>  static struct platform_driver mps2_serial_driver = {
>>  	.probe = mps2_serial_probe,
>> -	.remove = mps2_serial_remove,
>>  
>>  	.driver = {
>>  		.name = DRIVER_NAME,
>>  		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(mps2_match),
>> +		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
>>  	},
>>  };
>>  
>> @@ -610,16 +601,4 @@ static int __init mps2_uart_init(void)
>>  
>>  	return ret;
>>  }
>> -module_init(mps2_uart_init);
>> -
>> -static void __exit mps2_uart_exit(void)
>> -{
>> -	platform_driver_unregister(&mps2_serial_driver);
>> -	uart_unregister_driver(&mps2_uart_driver);
>> -}
>> -module_exit(mps2_uart_exit);
>> -
>> -MODULE_AUTHOR("Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>");
>> -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MPS2 UART driver");
>> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>> -MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" DRIVER_NAME);
>> +arch_initcall(mps2_uart_init);
> 
> The "module_init" maps onto "device_initcall" and since this is a device
> driver, that seems like the appropriate mapping.  By moving it to
> arch_initcall, you've changed it to be earlier and that may not be good.
> 
> The arch_initcall is more meant for things like poking registers to
> enable some arch/platform specific MMIO bus mapping of devices or
> similar.  If you look at include/linux/init.h and the ordering of the
> calls there, it will probably make more sense to you then to leave it as
> device_initcall.
> 
> 
> #define pure_initcall(fn)            __define_initcall(fn, 0)
> #define core_initcall(fn)            __define_initcall(fn, 1)
> #define postcore_initcall(fn)        __define_initcall(fn, 2)
> #define arch_initcall(fn)            __define_initcall(fn, 3)   <---
> #define subsys_initcall(fn)          __define_initcall(fn, 4)
> #define fs_initcall(fn)              __define_initcall(fn, 5)
> #define device_initcall(fn)          __define_initcall(fn, 6)   <---
> #define late_initcall(fn)            __define_initcall(fn, 7)
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Paul.
> --
> 
>> -- 
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
> 

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