On today's platforms the memory savings of putting the remove function in .exit isn't that relevant any more. It only matters for built-in drivers and typically saves a few 100k. The downside is that the driver cannot be unbound at runtime which is ancient and also slightly complicates testing. Also it requires to mark the driver struct with __refdata which is needed to suppress a (W=1) modpost warning: WARNING: modpost: drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi: section mismatch in reference: panel_dpi_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> panel_dpi_remove (section: .exit.text) To simplify matters, move the remove callback to .text and drop .suppress_bind_attrs = true. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c index 9790053c5877..aa6faa5ba158 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int panel_dpi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return r; } -static int __exit panel_dpi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) +static int panel_dpi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct panel_drv_data *ddata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); struct omap_dss_device *dssdev = &ddata->dssdev; @@ -236,11 +236,10 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, panel_dpi_of_match); static struct platform_driver panel_dpi_driver = { .probe = panel_dpi_probe, - .remove = __exit_p(panel_dpi_remove), + .remove = panel_dpi_remove, .driver = { .name = "panel-dpi", .of_match_table = panel_dpi_of_match, - .suppress_bind_attrs = true, }, }; -- 2.42.0