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Date:   Sun, 5 Mar 2017 11:29:41 +0000
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: magnetometer: ak8974: remove incorrect __exit
 markups

On 01/03/17 23:37, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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>
Thanks,

Applied to the fixes-togreg branch of iio.git and marked for stable.

Jonathan
> ---
>  drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c
> index ce09d771c1fb..75f83424903b 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c
> @@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ static int ak8974_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int __exit ak8974_remove(struct i2c_client *i2c)
> +static int ak8974_remove(struct i2c_client *i2c)
>  {
>  	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = i2c_get_clientdata(i2c);
>  	struct ak8974 *ak8974 = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> @@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ static struct i2c_driver ak8974_driver = {
>  		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(ak8974_of_match),
>  	},
>  	.probe	  = ak8974_probe,
> -	.remove	  = __exit_p(ak8974_remove),
> +	.remove	  = ak8974_remove,
>  	.id_table = ak8974_id,
>  };
>  module_i2c_driver(ak8974_driver);
>