[PATCH] i2c-pxa: fix unbinding/rebinding of the device
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
dbaryshkov at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 08:59:28 EST 2011
Hello, all
2011/1/8 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 07:06:44PM +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>> When a "pxa2xx-i2c" device was unbound (e.g. via sysfs) the remove
>> callback was not called because it was discarded when linking the
>> kernel. Because of that the resources allocated in probe were not
>> freed and so a clean unbind/rebind was impossible.
>>
>> Fix that by moving the remove callback to .devexit.text.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
I see this patch is still not pushed to neither linus nor linux-next.
Should I put it into rmk's patch system? Or will it find it's way to main kernel
via other paths?
>
> Thanks
> Uwe
>
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With best wishes
Dmitry
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