[PATCH 7/9] phy: remove .owner field for drivers using module_platform_driver

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Wed Sep 17 22:32:46 PDT 2014



On Thursday 18 September 2014 12:34 AM, Peter Griffin wrote:
> Hi Kishon,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Friday 15 August 2014 06:10 PM, Peter Griffin wrote:
>>> This patch removes the superflous .owner field for drivers which
>>> use the module_platform_driver or platform_driver_register api,
>>> as this is overriden in __platform_driver_register.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin at linaro.org>
> 
> <snip>
>>>  drivers/phy/phy-twl4030-usb.c       | 1 -
>>
>> twl4030-usb doesn't use module_platform_driver. Care to resend this patch
>> along? I've merged all other patches in this series.
> 
> That is true, but it does use platform_driver_register  whih overrides .owner.
> So the patch is stil good I think (fyi see include/linux/platform_device.h).

Indeed. Will merge this one.

Thanks
Kishon



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