Re: [PATCH 5/6] drm/sti: hdmi: drop driver owner assignment

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 27/05/2024 16:47, Alain Volmat wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> thanks for your patch, sorry for the delay.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 09:57:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> Core in platform_driver_register() already sets the .owner, so driver
>> does not need to.  Whatever is set here will be anyway overwritten by
>> main driver calling platform_driver_register().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> I forgot two drivers.
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c
>> index 500936d5743c..b0d84440a87b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_hdmi.c
>> @@ -1485,7 +1485,6 @@ static void sti_hdmi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>  struct platform_driver sti_hdmi_driver = {
>>  	.driver = {
>>  		.name = "sti-hdmi",
>> -		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
>>  		.of_match_table = hdmi_of_match,
>>  	},
>>  	.probe = sti_hdmi_probe,
>> -- 
>> 2.34.1
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@xxxxxxxxxxx>

What does this ack mean? You are the maintainer, so what is supposed to
happen now? If maintainer does not take patches, then the DRM STI looks
orphaned.

Best regards,
Krzysztof