On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

quoted

Even if bus is not hot-pluggable, devices can be unbound from the
driver via sysfs, so we should not be using __exit annotations on
remove() methods. The only exception is drivers registered with
platform_driver_probe() which specifically disables sysfs bind/unbind
attributes.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Patch queued for 4.12, thanks.

 Thanks!

  Maciej