[PATCH 2/2] drm: meson: rename driver name to meson-drm
Neil Armstrong
narmstrong at baylibre.com
Thu Feb 2 02:50:59 PST 2017
On 02/02/2017 11:45 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>> The platform driver name is currently "meson" which can lead to some
>> confusion, this patch renames it to "meson-drm" and removes the owner
>> attribute.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c
>> index ff1f601..380bde7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c
>> @@ -329,8 +329,7 @@ static int meson_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> .probe = meson_drv_probe,
>> .remove = meson_drv_remove,
>> .driver = {
>> - .owner = THIS_MODULE,
Hi Daniel,
> I don't get why you remove this, generally that will lead to trouble of
> being able to unload code that's still in use ...
Indeed, but since a (long ?) time, the owner field is now populated by the
platform_driver_register() core code.
>
> Otherwise ack.
>
> Now, do you want to get this landed as part of the small drivers in
> drm-mis experiment?
I have a PR ready, but it can go through this experiment, yes.
> -Daniel
>
>> - .name = DRIVER_NAME,
>> + .name = "meson-drm",
>> .of_match_table = dt_match,
>> },
>> };
>> --
Thanks,
Neil
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