On Fri, 05 Aug 2016, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> [Re: [PATCH 2/6] mfd: as3722: Make it explicitly non-modular] On 05/08/2016 
> (Fri 13:56) Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 06 Jul 2016, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > 
> > > [Re: [PATCH 2/6] mfd: as3722: Make it explicitly non-modular] On 
> > > 05/07/2016 (Tue 11:18) Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Tuesday 05 July 2016 06:55 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > > > >The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> > > > >
> > > > >drivers/mfd/Kconfig:config MFD_AS3722
> > > > >drivers/mfd/Kconfig:    bool "ams AS3722 Power Management IC"
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Should we convert this to as "tristate" so that it can be built as 
> > > > module
> > > > also.
> > > 
> > > Seems to compile and modpost w/o missing symbols as tristate:
> > > 
> > > paul@yow-builder:~/git/linux-head$ ls -l ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722*
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 13010 Jul  6 12:30 
> > > ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.ko
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul  1937 Jul  6 12:28 
> > > ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.mod.c
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul  3820 Jul  6 12:29 
> > > ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.mod.o
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 11292 Jul  6 12:13 
> > > ../arm-build/drivers/mfd/as3722.o
> > > paul@yow-builder:~/git/linux-head$ 
> > > 
> > > ...so I'll drop this patch in favour of the one line tristate conversion 
> > > in v2.
> > 
> > Did you ever get around to submitting a v2?
> 
> I made the v2 (as per above build stats) but never sent it out since I
> wasn't sure if mfd wanted a complete resend (like davem/linux-net) or
> just resends of the revised content... and then I never came back to it.
> 
> Here is the one line trivial patch.  If you want to punt this to 4.9
> given the current timing wrt. the merge window, feel free to do so;
> and/or I can re-send it myself with other pending 4.9 content I have.

>From a personal PoV, I'd prefer if you just submitted patches
normally.  I'll field them when they land in my Inbox.

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