Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: assign chip owner to dev->driver->owner if not set

[Alexandre Courbot]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Grygorii Strashko
<grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Assign GPIO chip owner field to chip->dev->driver->owner if it was not
> configured by GPIO driver.

Sounds good, setting this field manually seems to make less and less
sense anyway as most drivers follow the device model.

>
> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi,
>
>  There is also one positive additional side effect:
>  lines like below can be removed from a lot of GPIO
>  drivers
>         rdc321x_gpio_dev->chip.owner = THIS_MODULE;

A good idea for a follow-up patch! ;)

Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
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