linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: Mark driver as non removable

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Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:59:04 -0500
From:   Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
To:     Dhruva Gole <d-gole@...com>
CC:     <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Tero Kristo <kristo@...nel.org>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, <vibhore@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: Mark driver as non removable

On 22:47-20230907, Dhruva Gole wrote:
> The TI-SCI message protocol provides a way to communicate between
> various compute processors with a central system controller entity. It
> provides the fundamental device management capability and clock control
> in the SOCs that it's used in.
> 
> Ensure that the driver isn't unbound by suppressing its bind and unbind
> sysfs attributes. As the driver is built-in there is no way to remove
> device once bound.
> 
> We can also remove the ti_sci_remove call along with the
> ti_sci_debugfs_destroy as there are no callers for it any longer.
> 
> Fixes: aa276781a64a ("firmware: Add basic support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol")
> Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Dhruva Gole <d-gole@...com>

Add Reported-by and Closes tags

Also please address the comment from Uwe on improving the commit message

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Nishanth Menon
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