Subject: [PATCH 00/19] driver:usb&net: add missing platform_driver owner

From: [email-masked] (Gu Zheng)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:19 +0800

On 05/21/2013 02:41 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Dear David Miller,
> 
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 23:26:19 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote:
>> From: Libo Chen <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:42:00 +0800
>>
>>> I find a lot of mistakes using struct platform_driver without owner.
>>> So I pick up some of them including usb and net modules
>>
>> Instead of doing it this way, which is obviously error prone and
>> easy to forget, make platform_driver_register() be a macro which
>> sets the module owner field then calls the real
>> __platform_driver_register().
> 
> Or, maybe make the existing module_platform_driver() macro do this?

But not all the modules use module_platform_driver() macro to replace the module init/exit.

Thanks,
Gu

> Best regards,
> Thomas