[PATCH] i2c-pxa: fix unbinding/rebinding of the device

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Sat Jan 8 11:18:28 EST 2011


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>

Thanks
Uwe

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