Re: [BUG] pinctrl: sunxi: sunxi-pinctrl fail to load with CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE

[Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 05:48:43PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:18 PM, LABBE Corentin
> > <clabbe.montjoie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > With CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE=y pinctrl-sunxi fail to load on the second try.
> > >
> > > [    3.900061] sun8i-h3-pinctrl 1c20800.pinctrl: initialized sunXi PIO driver
> > > [    3.916251] gpio gpiochip1: GPIO integer space overlap, cannot add chip
> > > [    3.923016] gpiochip_add_data: GPIOs 0..223 (1c20800.pinctrl) failed to register
> > > [    3.931099] sun8i-h3-pinctrl: probe of 1c20800.pinctrl failed with error -16
> > > [    3.944709] sun8i-h3-r-pinctrl 1f02c00.pinctrl: initialized sunXi PIO driver
> > > [    3.960796] gpio gpiochip2: GPIO integer space overlap, cannot add chip
> > > [    3.967594] gpiochip_add_data: GPIOs 352..383 (1f02c00.pinctrl) failed to register
> > > [    3.975633] sun8i-h3-r-pinctrl: probe of 1f02c00.pinctrl failed with error -16
> > >
> > > Without it, all subsequent drivers fail to load.
> > > Tested on Orange PI PC board.
> > 
> > I don't think the pinctrl drivers were designed to be removed.
> > And I thought the lack of a .remove callback in the driver blocks
> > the core from removing the device? Maybe I remember wrong...
> 
> Using a builtin_platform_driver should be enough to prevent it to be
> removed.
> 

The problem is that it is already builtin_platform_driver()