Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: qup: Remove .owner field for driver

[Kiran Padwal]

On Tuesday 14 October 2014 01:39 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:47:57AM +0530, Kiran Padwal wrote:
>> On Monday 13 October 2014 06:39 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Two problems:
>>>  - I'm missing patches 1 and 2.
> 
>> These patches are same like this one,
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/58
>> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/52
> 
> You should at least be sending the cover letter to everyone so that they
> know what's going on.

OK, I will take care of this next time.

> 
>>>  - This only changes one driver but essentially every SPI driver
>>>    initializes .owner - why is only thi sone driver being changed?
> 
>> Nothing more intention, but just remove superfluous .owner field for drivers which
>> use the module_platform_driver API, as this is overridden in
>> platform_driver_register anyway.
> 
> My point is that doing a change like this to random drivers isn't great,
> if you're going to do this sort of thing it is better to do it for
> everything rather than making things inconsistent.
> 

Sure, I will do that.

Thanks,
--Kiran
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