linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: assign chip owner to dev->driver->owner if not set

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Message-ID: <1435253451-19817-2-git-send-email-grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:30:51 +0300
From:	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
CC:	Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gpiolib: assign chip owner to dev->driver->owner if not set

Assign GPIO chip owner field to chip->dev->driver->owner if it was not
configured by GPIO driver.

Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
---
Hi,

 There is also one positive additional side effect:
 lines like below can be removed from a lot of GPIO
 drivers
	rdc321x_gpio_dev->chip.owner = THIS_MODULE;

 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 9b1d247..d51af5d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -287,6 +287,9 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&chip->pin_ranges);
 #endif
 
+	if (!chip->owner && chip->dev && chip->dev->driver)
+		chip->owner = chip->dev->driver->owner;
+
 	of_gpiochip_add(chip);
 	acpi_gpiochip_add(chip);
 
-- 
2.4.4

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