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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Kiran Padwal <kiran.padwal@smartplayin.com>
Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: qup: Remove .owner field for driver
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:09:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141013130918.GY27755@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412840528-31508-1-git-send-email-kiran.padwal@smartplayin.com>

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On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 01:12:08PM +0530, Kiran Padwal wrote:
> There is no need to init .owner field.
> 
> Based on the patch from Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>
> "mmc: remove .owner field for drivers using module_platform_driver"
> 
> This patch removes the superfluous .owner field for drivers which
> use the module_platform_driver API, as this is overridden in
> platform_driver_register anyway."

Two problems:
 - I'm missing patches 1 and 2.
 - This only changes one driver but essentially every SPI driver
   initializes .owner - why is only thi sone driver being changed?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-13 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-09  7:42 [PATCH 3/3] spi: qup: Remove .owner field for driver Kiran Padwal
2014-10-13 13:09 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-10-14  6:17   ` Kiran Padwal
2014-10-14  8:09     ` Mark Brown
2014-10-14  9:01       ` Kiran Padwal

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