linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] power: vexpress: add suppress_bind

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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 12:25:49 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
        SoC Team <soc@...nel.org>,
        "moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] power: vexpress: add suppress_bind_attrs to true

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:27 PM Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:26 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Make sure that the POWER_RESET_VEXPRESS driver won't have bind/unbind
> > attributes available via the sysfs, so lets be explicit here and use
> > ".suppress_bind_attrs = true" to prevent userspace from doing something
> > silly.
>
> This doesn't really make sense if we're going to make this a module.
> Module unloading and unbind introduce the same requirements of
> cleaning up (undoing whatever probe did).

I still want this change as a separate patch so we can backport it to stable
kernels for correctness.

Also, as long as we don't have a working (and tested) .remove callback,
we can only allow making the driver a loadable module but not also
allowing the module to be removed.

      Arnd