On Sunday, December 13, 2015 06:57:09 PM Paul Gortmaker wrote: > This series of commits is a part of a larger project to ensure > people don't reference modular support functions in non-modular > code. Overall there was roughly 5k lines of dead code in the > kernel due to this. So far we've fixed several areas, like tty, > x86, net, ... and we continue to work on other areas. > > There are several reasons to not use module support for code that > can never be built as a module, but the big ones are: > > (1) it is easy to accidentally code up unused module_exit and remove code > (2) it can be misleading when reading the source, thinking it can be > modular when the Makefile and/or Kconfig prohibit it > (3) it requires the include of the module.h header file which in turn > includes nearly everything else. > > Fortunately for cpuidle, the changes are largely trivial and change > zero runtime. All the changes here just remap the modular functions > onto the non-modular ones that they would be remapped onto anyway. > > Changes are against linux-next and compile tested on ARM allmodconfig. > I've Cc'd ARM list because all of these are used on ARM, but I'm > thinking these probably can go in via the PM tree.
If no one objects, I can queue up this series for 4.5 unless you have other plans with respect to it. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
