Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: i810: remove incorrect __exit markups

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Monday, March 20, 2017 11:42:56 AM Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Bartlomiej,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 06:19:17PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Wednesday, March 01, 2017 05:31:01 PM Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Even if bus is not hot-pluggable, devices can be unbound from the
> > > driver via sysfs, so we should not be using __exit annotations on
> > > remove() methods. The only exception is drivers registered with
> > > platform_driver_probe() which specifically disables sysfs bind/unbind
> > > attributes.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Patch queued for 4.12, thanks.
> > 
> > It seems that there are still some fbdev drivers with this issue:
> 
> I do not think so:
> 
> > 
> > $ git grep __exit_p drivers/video/fbdev/
> > drivers/video/fbdev/amifb.c:    .remove = __exit_p(amifb_remove),
> 
> Registered as module_platform_driver_probe(), which ends up suppressing
> sysfs bind/unbind attributes.
> 
> > drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c:      .remove         = __exit_p(atmel_lcdfb_remove),
> 
> Registered as module_platform_driver_probe(), which ends up suppressing
> sysfs bind/unbind attributes.
> 
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/connector-analog-tv.c:        .remove = __exit_p(tvc_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/connector-dvi.c:      .remove = __exit_p(dvic_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/connector-hdmi.c:     .remove = __exit_p(hdmic_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/encoder-opa362.c:     .remove = __exit_p(opa362_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/encoder-tfp410.c:     .remove = __exit_p(tfp410_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/encoder-tpd12s015.c:  .remove = __exit_p(tpd_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c:  .remove = __exit_p(panel_dpi_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dsi-cm.c:       .remove = __exit_p(dsicm_remove),
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01.c:    .remove = __exit_p(sharp_ls_remove),
> 
> As far as I can see all omapfb/displays/ drivers explicitly disable
> bind/unbind attributes by setting:
> 
> 		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
> 
> 
> > drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/vrfb.c:        .remove         = __exit_p(vrfb_remove),
> 
> Registered as module_platform_driver_probe(), which ends up suppressing
> sysfs bind/unbind attributes.

You're right of course, thanks for explaining this and auditing all fbdev
drivers.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics