Re: [PULL REQUEST] i2c for 3.13

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:11:25AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, November 18, 2013 03:46:34 PM Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > here is the pull request from the i2c subsystem for 3.13:
> > 
> > So while resolving some fairly trivial conflicts here, I noticed that
> > commit a76e9bd89ae7 ("i2c: attach/detach I2C client device to the ACPI
> > power domain") that I got earlier through the ACPI/PM tree calls
> > acpi_dev_pm_detach() even when the device "->remove()" function fails.
> > But it only sets clientdata to NULL if it succeeds.
> > 
> > That looks a bit odd.
> > 
> > I didn't try to fix it, though. I just thought I'd point out the oddity.
> 
> Well, given that the driver core doesn't even check the return value of
> dev->bus->remove(dev), I think doing the unconditional acpi_dev_pm_detach()
> is actually correct and clientdata should be cleared unconditionally too.

Actually, can we remove the whole clientdata setting there?

Commit 0998d0631001 (device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is
bound) modified the driver core to always clear out that field. Same seems
to apply if driver probe fails.