linux-kernel - Re: Applied "regulator: 88pm800: Remove owner" to the regulator tree

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:43:04 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Applied "regulator: 88pm800: Remove owner" to the regulator tree

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:11:19PM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> I wonder why? Isn't the owner needed for module_get/module_put or am I
> missing something?

The driver core apparently now does this and we shouldn't be doing it
statically so we get all this code churn.  I'm not sure I understand the
win TBH.

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