Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbdev: avoid module usage in non-modular sparc code,Re: [PATCH 0/3] video/fbde

On 26/02/16 19:21, David Miller wrote:

From: Tomi Valkeinen <redacted>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:58:00 +0200

quoted

While doing this, did you just go forward removing the module support,
or did you check if it would be trivial to make the driver build as a
module? I wouldn't be surprised if in some cases all that would need to
be done is change the Kconfig's bool to tristate.

I think what he is doing is reasonable, and none of these sparc drivers
have any reason to be built modular.  You need them to have any bootup
console whatsoever, so they have to be built in statically to be
usable at all.

I disagree. Having drivers buildable as modules is always good, even if
the normal use case would be to have them as built-in.

I plan to apply this patch series to my sparc tree as-is.

They are fbdev patches without any dependency to sparc afaics. So let's
apply them via fbdev tree.

 Tomi