Re: [PATCH] ehea: Drop owner assignment from platform_driver

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Fri Feb 19 2016 - 07:06:56 EST




On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:52:19PM +0530, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> > platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by
> > the driver core.
> >
> > Generated-by: scripts/coccinelle/api/platform_no_drv_owner.cocci
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
> > index 2a0dc12..d4b022f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
> > @@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ static const struct of_device_id ehea_device_table[] = {
> > static struct platform_driver ehea_driver = {
> > .driver = {
> > .name = "ehea",
> > - .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> > .of_match_table = ehea_device_table,
> > },
> > .probe = ehea_probe_adapter,
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >
>
> NACK.
>
> ehea does not use platform_driver_register, it uses
> ibmebus_register_driver, which does not set owner.

Thanks for the information. I will try to update the saemantic patch.

julia