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

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

2017-08-02 13:41 GMT+02:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.
>

gpio-sodaville sets .supress_bind_attrs to true. Other built-in
drivers need updates for that, but I think this could go in a separate
series as using devres doesn't affect the bind/unbind
functionality/issue.

Thanks,
Bartosz