This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtc: sun6i: Disable the build as a module
to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rtc-sun6i-disable-the-build-as-a-module.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3753941475ae6501dcd1e41832bd0e6c35247d6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:41:46 +0100
Subject: rtc: sun6i: Disable the build as a module
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3753941475ae6501dcd1e41832bd0e6c35247d6a upstream.
Since we have to provide the clock very early on, the RTC driver cannot be
built as a module. Make sure that won't happen.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c | 7 +------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ config RTC_DRV_SUN4V
based RTC on SUN4V systems.
config RTC_DRV_SUN6I
- tristate "Allwinner A31 RTC"
+ bool "Allwinner A31 RTC"
default MACH_SUN6I || MACH_SUN8I || COMPILE_TEST
depends on ARCH_SUNXI
help
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c
@@ -439,9 +439,4 @@ static struct platform_driver sun6i_rtc_
.of_match_table = sun6i_rtc_dt_ids,
},
};
-
-module_platform_driver(sun6i_rtc_driver);
-
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("sun6i RTC driver");
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+builtin_platform_driver(sun6i_rtc_driver);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.10/rtc-sun6i-disable-the-build-as-a-module.patch
queue-4.10/rtc-sun6i-add-some-locking.patch
queue-4.10/rtc-sun6i-switch-to-the-external-oscillator.patch