Hi Maxime,

On ma, 2015-08-31 at 09:49 +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:

On 07/09/2015 10:17 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:

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+static int __exit st_fdma_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+	struct st_fdma_dev *fdev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+
+	wait_for_completion(&fdev->fw_ack);
+
+	st_fdma_clk_disable(fdev);
+
+	return 0;
+}

Since this driver is built-in only this means st_fdma_remove() can 
never be used, right?

It's not because a driver is built-in only that it does not need a 
remove callback.
An instance can be probed/removed any time via driver's bind/unbind 
SysFS entries.
Am I missing something?

(This discussion is moot because Peter already stated that a new version
will be modular.)

It follows from the __exit tag that st_fdma_remove() should never be
part of the kernel image (in this version of the patch), doesn't it?

(I don't know what happens in this situation if an unbind sysfs entry is
used to remove a driver. I've never tried that.)


Paul Bolle
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