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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] PWM: vt8500: Update vt8500 PWM driver support
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:50:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210221150.22004.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121022071118.GA30026@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de>

On Monday 22 October 2012, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 07:51:52PM +1300, Tony Prisk wrote:
> > Replies to your comments inline:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 08:34 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > ...
> > > > -static int __devinit pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > > > +static const struct of_device_id vt8500_pwm_dt_ids[] = {
> > > > + { .compatible = "via,vt8500-pwm", },
> > > > + { /* Sentinel */ }
> > > > +};
> > > > +
> > > > +static int __devinit vt8500_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > > 
> > > Since you're changing this line anyway, maybe you should drop __devinit
> > > (and __devexit for the .remove() callback). HOTPLUG is always enabled
> > > nowadays and will go away eventually, in which case these will need to
> > > be removed anyway.
> > 
> > Will do. I must say the inconstancy among comments is rather
> > frustrating. In another patch I sent out a few days ago (completely
> > unrelated to this), I told to add __devexit to a remove() function :\
> 
> This is a rather recent development, so maybe not everyone knows about
> it yet. You can look at the following commit for the details:
> 
>         45f035ab9b8f45aaf1eb2213218b7e9c14af3fc2
> 
> It's been in linux-next for about 6 weeks and has also gone into
> 3.7-rc1.

As long as we get build warnings for leaving out the __devinit/__devexit
annotations, I would generally recommend putting them in. If we do a
patch to remove all of them, a couple extra instances will not cause
any more troubles than we already have.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-22 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-19 10:38 [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: Update board files for pwm support Tony Prisk
2012-10-19 10:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] PWM: vt8500: Update vt8500 PWM driver support Tony Prisk
2012-10-22  6:34   ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22  6:51     ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-22  7:09       ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-22  7:24         ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22  7:36           ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-22  8:04             ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22  8:13               ` [PATCH v2] pwm: " Tony Prisk
2012-10-22  8:40                 ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22 18:10                   ` [PATCH v3] " Tony Prisk
2012-10-23 22:14                     ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-24  3:46                       ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-24  5:41                         ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-24 17:35                           ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-24  3:48                       ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-23  8:41               ` [PATCH 2/3] PWM: " Tony Prisk
2012-10-23  9:22                 ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-23  9:31                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-23  9:56                     ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22  7:11       ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22 11:50         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-10-22 12:07           ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22 13:52             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-22 15:08               ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22 17:49                 ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-19 10:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] DOC: PWM: Adding binding document for via,vt8500-pwm Tony Prisk
2012-10-22  6:35   ` Thierry Reding
2012-10-22  6:53     ` Tony Prisk
2012-10-19 22:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: Update board files for pwm support Tony Prisk

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