Re: [PATCH 1/3] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Prevent driver unbind

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:32:24 +0000,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> Clockevents cannot be deregistered so suppress the bind attributes to
> prevent the driver from being unbound and releasing the underlying
> resources after registration.
> 
> Fixes: 4891f01527bb ("clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add standalone MMIO driver")
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer_mmio.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer_mmio.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer_mmio.c
> index ebe1987d651e..d10362692fdd 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer_mmio.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer_mmio.c
> @@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ static struct platform_driver arch_timer_mmio_drv = {
>  	.driver	= {
>  		.name = "arch-timer-mmio",
>  		.of_match_table	= arch_timer_mmio_of_table,
> +		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
>  	},
>  	.probe	= arch_timer_mmio_probe,
>  };
> @@ -434,6 +435,7 @@ builtin_platform_driver(arch_timer_mmio_drv);
>  static struct platform_driver arch_timer_mmio_acpi_drv = {
>  	.driver	= {
>  		.name = "gtdt-arm-mmio-timer",
> +		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
>  	},
>  	.probe	= arch_timer_mmio_probe,
>  };

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

	M.

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