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Date:   Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:19:43 +0200
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
        Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@mm-sol.com>,
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        Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: qcom: Add support for modular builds
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 03:02:57PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 02:35:13PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 08:47:20AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > Allow the Qualcomm PCIe controller driver to be built as a module, which
> > > is useful for multi-platform kernels as well as during development.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > > Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Applied to pci/ctrl/qcom for v5.20, thanks!
> 
> I'm going to drop this one for now, since the module vs remove
> discussion [1] is still ongoing.
> 
> This patch actually makes it both *modular* and *removable*.  I think
> the modular part is uncontroversial and valuable by itself.
> 
> If you want to just make it modular and *non*-removable, I think that
> would be fine and we can add removability next cycle if we think it's
> safe.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721195433.GA1747571@bhelgaas

Nah, I prefer we conclude that discussion so that hopefully this can be
merged as is.

Johan