Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] gpio-exar/8250-exar: Fix passing in of parent PCI device

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Jun 20 2017 - 04:13:46 EST


On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This fixes reloading of the GPIO driver for the same platform device
> instance as created by the exar UART driver: First of all, the driver
> sets drvdata to its own value during probing and does not restore the
> original value on exit. But this won't help anyway as the core clears
> drvdata after the driver left.
>
> Set the platform device parent instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to the GPIO tree so we advance this series.

Patch 1 does not apply.

Let's see how it goes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij