Re: [PATCH 7/9] phy: remove .owner field for drivers using module_platform_driver

From: Peter Griffin
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 15:04:15 EST


Hi Kishon,

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Friday 15 August 2014 06:10 PM, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > This patch removes the superflous .owner field for drivers which
> > use the module_platform_driver or platform_driver_register api,
> > as this is overriden in __platform_driver_register.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>

<snip>
> > drivers/phy/phy-twl4030-usb.c | 1 -
>
> twl4030-usb doesn't use module_platform_driver. Care to resend this patch
> along? I've merged all other patches in this series.

That is true, but it does use platform_driver_register whih overrides .owner.
So the patch is stil good I think (fyi see include/linux/platform_device.h).

regards,

Peter.
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