spi: stm32-qspi: Update spi registering

Patrice CHOTARD patrice.chotard at foss.st.com
Wed Jan 12 05:18:01 PST 2022


Hi Mark

On 1/6/22 2:51 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 02:20:52PM +0100, patrice.chotard at foss.st.com wrote:
>> From: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard at foss.st.com>
>>
>> Replace devm_spi_register_master() by spi_register_master() to ensure
>> that spi sub-nodes are unregistered in the correct order when qspi driver
>> is removed.
> 
> This commit message doesn't describe the actual issue.  The change is
> fixing ordering within the driver itself - the driver is freeing things
> in the remove() callback which are used by the controller but thanks to
> the use of devm the controller isn't unregistered from the core until
> after the remove() callback has run so we might still have something
> running.  "Subnodes" aren't an issue here.

OK i will update this comment to be clearer.

> 
> Please submit patches using subject lines reflecting the style for the
> subsystem, this makes it easier for people to identify relevant patches.
> Look at what existing commits in the area you're changing are doing and
> make sure your subject lines visually resemble what they're doing.
> There's no need to resubmit to fix this alone.
> 

Agree, i forgot to use the correct script to submit patches to ML.

Thanks
Patrice



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list