Re: [PATCH 4/6] gpio: mxc: use devres for irq generic chip

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Aug 02 2017 - 07:41:51 EST


On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Alexander Stein
> <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 02 August 2017 09:51:24, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>> Use resource managed variants of irq_alloc_generic_chip() and
>>> irq_setup_generic_chip().
>>
>> Is this really useful for drivers which can only be built-in?
>
> But you still can unbind the driver and its ->remove() will be called
> (in case of no remove, devres still on the table), right?

Maybe the patches need to be combines with a
.suppress_bind_attrs = true in the driver struct?

I backed out the patches I applied, I thought the series were older,
sorry stressed at work today.

Yours,
Linus Walleij