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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:30:15 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: gpio-tb10x: remove incorrect __exit markup

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:

> Even if bus is not hot-pluggable, the 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@...il.com>

I prefer to have this fixed by setting
.suppress_bind_attrs = true
in the struct device_driver .drv portion of the device driver,
so the driver cannot be removed from sysfs.

So platform_driver_probe() isn't really the only exception,
there is a way to do the same supression on ordinary drivers
if we know we won't fiddle with them from sysfs.

Can you make a patch as per above (alternatively tell me
how wrong I am...)

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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