Driver needs an owner

[Fabio Estevam]

Wolfram,

Since commit 161d6981096f57("core: platform: add warning if driver has
no owner") I get the following on mx28:

$ dmesg | grep owner
[    0.111580] Driver 'reg-dummy' needs an owner
[    0.184911] Driver 'imx23-pinctrl' needs an owner
[    0.185321] Driver 'imx28-pinctrl' needs an ownerDriver 'gpio-mxs'
needs an owner
[    0.189719] Driver 'mxs_phy' needs an ownerDriver 'dummy' needs an owner
[    0.286990] Driver 'uart-pl011' needs an owner
[    0.675481] Driver 'mxs-dma' needs an owner
[    0.713640] Driver 'reg-fixed-voltage' needs an owner
[    0.740529] Driver 'Generic PHY' needs an owner
[    0.745242] Driver 'Generic 10G PHY' needs an ownerDriver 'usbfs'
needs an owner
[    0.760398] Driver 'hub' needs an owner
[    0.770501] Driver 'usb' needs an owner
[    0.780824] Driver 'mxs-i2c' needs an owner
[    1.286178] Driver 'arm-pmu' needs an owner
[    1.294116] Driver 'alarmtimer' needs an owner<6>[    1.301869]
futex hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 11264 bytes)
[    1.475709] Driver 'mxs-pwm' needs an owner
[    1.485961] Driver 'generic-bl' needs an ownerDriver
'pwm-backlight' needs an owner
[    1.505590] Driver 'mxsfb' needs an owner
[    1.590942] Driver 'mxs-auart' needs an owner
[    1.637906] Driver 'at24' needs an owner
[    1.650206] Driver 'sd' needs an owner
[    1.657976] Driver 'mtd_dataflash' needs an ownerDriver 'm25p80'
needs an owner
[    1.666303] Driver 'sst25l' needs an ownerDriver 'gpmi-nand' needs an owner
[    1.692236] Driver 'mxs-spi' needs an owner
[    1.746116] Driver 'SMSC LAN83C185' needs an owner
[    1.751123] Driver 'SMSC LAN8187' needs an ownerDriver 'SMSC
LAN8700' needs an owner
[    1.759795] Driver 'SMSC LAN911x Internal PHY' needs an ownerDriver
'SMSC LAN8710/LAN8720' needs an owner
[    1.770312] Driver 'ICPlus IP175C' needs an ownerDriver 'ICPlus
IP1001' needs an owner
[    1.779089] Driver 'ICPlus IP101A/G' needs an ownerDriver
'RTL8201CP Ethernet' needs an owner
[    1.788523] Driver 'RTL8211B Gigabit Ethernet' needs an ownerDriver
'RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet' needs an owner
[    1.799480] Driver 'Micrel KS8737' needs an ownerDriver 'Micrel
KSZ8021 or KSZ8031' needs an owner
[    1.809398] Driver 'Micrel KSZ8031' needs an ownerDriver 'Micrel
KSZ8041' needs an owner
[    1.818360] Driver 'Micrel KSZ8041RNLI' needs an ownerDriver
'Micrel KSZ8051' needs an owner
[    1.827672] Driver 'Micrel KSZ8001 or KS8721' needs an ownerDriver
'Micrel KSZ8081 or KSZ8091' needs an owner
[    1.838476] Driver 'Micrel KSZ8061' needs an ownerDriver 'Micrel
KSZ9021 Gigabit PHY' needs an owner
[    1.848491] Driver 'Micrel KSZ9031 Gigabit PHY' needs an
ownerDriver 'Micrel KSZ8873MLL Switch' needs an owner
[    1.859480] Driver 'Micrel KSZ886X Switch' needs an ownerDriver
'fec' needs an owner
[    2.003222] Driver 'enc28j60' needs an owner
[    2.007873] Driver 'asix' needs an owner<6>[    2.012440] usbcore:
registered new interface driver asix
[    2.018057] Driver 'ax88179_178a' needs an owner
[    2.029505] Driver 'cdc_ether' needs an owner
[    2.040428] Driver 'smsc95xx' needs an owner
[    2.051351] Driver 'net1080' needs an owner
[    2.061885] Driver 'cdc_subset' needs an owner
[    2.072933] Driver 'zaurus' needs an owner
[    2.083378] Driver 'cdc_ncm' needs an owner
[    2.100807] Driver 'usb-storage' needs an owner
[    2.112237] Driver 'ci_hdrc' needs an owner
[    2.117220] Driver 'msm_hsusb' needs an ownerDriver 'zevio_usb'
needs an owner
[    2.126321] Driver 'usbmisc_imx' needs an ownerDriver 'imx_usb'
needs an owner
[    2.228619] Driver 'stmp3xxx-rtc' needs an owner
[    2.255190] Driver 'stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt' needs an owner
[    2.274896] Driver 'mmcblk' needs an owner
[    2.286272] Driver 'mxs-mmc' needs an owner
[    2.342066] Driver 'leds-gpio' needs an owner
[    2.354075] Driver 'mxs-dcp' needs an ownerDriver 'hid-generic'
needs an owner
[    2.375785] Driver 'a4tech' needs an ownerDriver 'apple' needs an owner
[    2.383522] Driver 'belkin' needs an ownerDriver 'cherry' needs an owner
[    2.391894] Driver 'chicony' needs an ownerDriver 'cypress' needs an owner
[    2.399859] Driver 'ezkey' needs an ownerDriver 'kensington' needs an owner
[    2.408450] Driver 'logitech' needs an ownerDriver 'microsoft' needs an owner
[    2.416743] Driver 'monterey' needs an ownerDriver 'plantronics'
needs an owner


First issue is that we should break the line:

--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv)
        BUG_ON(!drv->bus->p);

        if (!drv->owner)
-               printk(KERN_WARNING "Driver '%s' needs an owner", drv->name);
+               printk(KERN_WARNING "Driver '%s' needs an owner\n", drv->name);


Let's take drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mxs.c: it has the following in the
probe routine
adap->owner = THIS_MODULE;

, and even though we still get:
[    0.780824] Driver 'mxs-i2c' needs an owner

So what's the correct way to pass the owner?
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