[PATCH] mtd: remove .owner field for driver using module_platform_driver

[Sharma, Sanjeev]

Hi Sanjeev Sharma,

On 11/11/2014 03:57 PM, Sanjeev Sharma wrote:
> This patch removes the .owner field for drivers which use the 
> platform_driver_register api because this is overriden in 
> _platform_driver_register.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Sharma <Sanjeev_Sharma at mentor.com>
> ---
>   drivers/mtd/nand/ams-delta.c     | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c    | 2 --
>   drivers/mtd/nand/au1550nd.c      | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/bf5xx_nand.c    | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c  | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/denali_dt.c     | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/docg4.c         | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c  | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_upm.c       | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/fsmc_nand.c     | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/gpio.c          | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/jz4740_nand.c   | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c   | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_slc.c   | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/mpc5121_nfc.c   | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c      | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c          | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/nuc900_nand.c   | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c         | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/omap_elm.c      | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c    | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c   | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/plat_nand.c     | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/s3c2410.c       | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/sh_flctl.c      | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/sharpsl.c       | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/socrates_nand.c | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/tmio_nand.c     | 1 -
>   drivers/mtd/nand/txx9ndfmc.c     | 1 -
>   30 files changed, 31 deletions(-)

This removal of .owner field should be done for all the platform drivers which are using module_platform_driver().

Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> working on this change on the all the drivers. Please see [1].


[1]:https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git/log/?h=platform/remove_owner

Thanks for the information and it surely make sense to take this up in all the subsystem.

Sanjeev 

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Varka Bhadram.