Re: [PATCH] i2c-pxa: fix unbinding/rebinding of the device

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:59:28PM +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> Hello, all
> 
> 2011/1/8 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>:
> > On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 07:06:44PM +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
> >> When a "pxa2xx-i2c" device was unbound (e.g. via sysfs) the remove
> >> callback was not called because it was discarded when linking the
> >> kernel.  Because of that the resources allocated in probe were not
> >> freed and so a clean unbind/rebind was impossible.
> >>
> >> Fix that by moving the remove callback to .devexit.text.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> > Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
> 
> I see this patch is still not pushed to neither linus nor linux-next.
> Should I put it into rmk's patch system? Or will it find it's way to main kernel
> via other paths?
rmk's patch system isn't the right place.  Ben needs to take it.  Ben?

Best regards
Uwe

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