Re: [PATCH 00/19] driver:usb&net: add missing platform_driver owner

[Libo Chen]

On 2013/5/21 16:00, Gu Zheng wrote:
> On 05/21/2013 02:41 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
>> Dear David Miller,
>>
>> On Mon, 20 May 2013 23:26:19 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Libo Chen <libo.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:42:00 +0800
>>>
>>>> I find a lot of mistakes using struct platform_driver without owner.
>>>> So I pick up some of them including usb and net modules
>>>
>>> Instead of doing it this way, which is obviously error prone and
>>> easy to forget, make platform_driver_register() be a macro which
>>> sets the module owner field then calls the real
>>> __platform_driver_register().
>>
>> Or, maybe make the existing module_platform_driver() macro do this?
> 
> 
> But not all the modules use module_platform_driver() macro to replace the module init/exit.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gu
> 

yes, there are many drivers register platform_driver by platform_driver_register manually.

make both platform_driver_register() and module_platform_driver()  to check and set the module owner field?



>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
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> 


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