linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] spi: fix resource leak for drivers without .remove callback

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Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:09:47 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] spi: fix resource leak for drivers without .remove
 callback

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:04:12PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:41:39PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 04:35:40PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> > > (Not sure this makes a difference in real life, are there drivers
> > > without a .probe callback?)

> > Your changelog seemed to say that it would make remove mandatory.

> No, that's not what the patch did. It made unconditional use of
> spi_drv_remove(), but an spi_driver without .remove() was still ok. I
> will reword to make this clearer.

Ah, OK - I hadn't read the patch closely as the description sounded
wrong.

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