[PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: Mark driver as non removable
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Sep 7 13:54:27 PDT 2023
Hello,
On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 10:47:00PM +0530, Dhruva Gole wrote:
> The TI-SCI message protocol provides a way to communicate between
> various compute processors with a central system controller entity. It
> provides the fundamental device management capability and clock control
> in the SOCs that it's used in.
>
Maybe add:
The remove function failed to do all the necessary cleanup if
there are registered users. Some things are freed however which
likely results in an oops later on.
> Ensure that the driver isn't unbound by suppressing its bind and unbind
> sysfs attributes. As the driver is built-in there is no way to remove
> device once bound.
>
> We can also remove the ti_sci_remove call along with the
> ti_sci_debugfs_destroy as there are no callers for it any longer.
>
> Fixes: aa276781a64a ("firmware: Add basic support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol")
> Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Dhruva Gole <d-gole at ti.com>
While this isn't the most elegant solution, this is probably the most
feasible one.
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
(with or without the suggested addition to the commit log above).
Best regards
Uwe
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