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Message-Id: <20170302.143406.1348849132445336690.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:34:06 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: ethernet: remove incorrect __exit markups

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:24:47 -0800

> 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@...il.com>

Applied, thank you.