Re: [PATCH] gpio: xgs-iproc: remove __exit annotation for iproc_gpio_remove

[Chris Packham]

On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 20:54 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When built into the kernel, the driver causes a link problem:
> 
> `iproc_gpio_remove' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.o
> 
> Remove the incorrect annotation.
> 
> Fixes: 6a41b6c5fc20 ("gpio: Add xgs-iproc driver")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

What's the current best practice w.r.t.__init and __exit? I seem to
have messed this up on multiple fronts.

> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.c
> index 773e5c24309e..b21c2e436b61 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.c
> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int iproc_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int __exit iproc_gpio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static int iproc_gpio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct iproc_gpio_chip *chip;
>