@@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ config GPIO_TPS65912
This driver supports TPS65912 GPIO chip.
config GPIO_TPS68470
- bool "TPS68470 GPIO"
+ tristate "TPS68470 GPIO"
depends on INTEL_SKL_INT3472
help
Select this option to enable GPIO driver for the TPS68470
@@ -1403,10 +1403,6 @@ config GPIO_TPS68470
input or output as appropriate, the sensor related GPIOs
are "output only" GPIOs.
- This driver config is bool, as the GPIO functionality
- of the TPS68470 must be available before dependent
- drivers are loaded.
-
config GPIO_TQMX86
tristate "TQ-Systems QTMX86 GPIO"
depends on MFD_TQMX86 || COMPILE_TEST
@@ -155,4 +155,8 @@ static struct platform_driver tps68470_gpio_driver = {
.probe = tps68470_gpio_probe,
};
-builtin_platform_driver(tps68470_gpio_driver)
+module_platform_driver(tps68470_gpio_driver);
+
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:tps68470-gpio");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("GPIO driver for TPS68470 PMIC");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
The gpio-tps68470 driver binds to a tps68470-gpio platform-device which itself gets instantiated by a special MFD driver from drivers/platform/x86/intel/int3472/tps68470.c This MFD driver itself can be build as a module, so it makes no sense to force the gpio-tps68470 driver to always be builtin. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> --- drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 6 +----- drivers/gpio/gpio-tps68470.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)