Re: [PATCH] gpio: gpio-stmpe: fully use convert probe to device-managed

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Fri May 21 2021 - 08:42:34 EST


On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 8:14 AM Alexandru Ardelean
<aardelean@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The driver doesn't look like it can be built as a kmod, so leaks cannot
> happen via a rmmod mechanism.
> The remove hook was removed via commit 3b52bb960ec6 ("gpio: stmpe: make
> it explicitly non-modular").
>
> The IRQ is registered via devm_request_threaded_irq(), making the driver
> only partially device-managed.
>
> In any case all resources should be made device-managed, mostly as a good
> practice. That way at least the unwinding on error is happening in reverse
> order (as the probe).
>
> This change also removes platform_set_drvdata() since the information is
> never retrieved to be used in the driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <aardelean@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I applied the patch and tweaked the commit message because as Andy
pointed out - this driver can be unbound over sysfs.

Bart