[PATCH v2 1/5] phy: Add driver for Exynos MIPI CSIS/DSIM DPHYs

[Andrzej Hajda]

Hi Felipe,

On 06/27/2013 08:17 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:00:34PM +0200, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06/25/2013 05:06 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>>> +static struct platform_driver exynos_video_phy_driver = {
>>>>> +	.probe	= exynos_video_phy_probe,
>>>
>>> you *must* provide a remove method. drivers with NULL remove are
>>> non-removable :-)
>>
>> Actually the remove() callback can be NULL, it's just missing module_exit
>> function that makes a module not unloadable.
> 
> look at the implementation of platform_drv_remove():
> 
>  499 static int platform_drv_remove(struct device *_dev)
>  500 {
>  501         struct platform_driver *drv = to_platform_driver(_dev->driver);
>  502         struct platform_device *dev = to_platform_device(_dev);
>  503         int ret;
>  504 
>  505         ret = drv->remove(dev);
>  506         if (ACPI_HANDLE(_dev))
>  507                 acpi_dev_pm_detach(_dev, true);
>  508 
>  509         return ret;
>  510 }
> 
> that's not a conditional call right :-)

It is conditional, just condition check is in different place:

int platform_driver_register(struct platform_driver *drv)
{
	(...)
	if (drv->remove)
		drv->driver.remove = platform_drv_remove;
	(...)
}


Regards
Andrzej

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