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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 00/22] mfd: demodularization of non-modular drivers
    On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 5:24 AM Paul Gortmaker
    <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:

    > [v1 --> v2: add some more commits as requested by Lee (MFD maintainer),
    > update the 00/NN text; re-do build and link testing on new linux-next. ]
    >
    > This group of MFD drivers are all controlled by "bool" Kconfig settings,
    > but contain various amounts of largely pointless uses of infrastructure
    > related to modular operations, even though they can't be built modular.
    >
    > We can easily remove/replace all of it. We are trying to make driver
    > code consistent with the Makefiles/Kconfigs that control them. This
    > means not using modular functions/macros for drivers that can never be
    > built as a module. Some of the downfalls this oversight leads to are:

    This series:
    Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

    IMO it is clearly the right thing to do, moving a whole bunch
    of clutter out of the way so we can see clearly and the effect
    of getting rid of the <linux/module.h> is a substantial improvement
    in its own right.

    Yours.
    Linus Walleij

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