On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:06:44AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > The main problem is that representing anything hot-removable as a > platform device is inherently fragile, as the platform bus type has no > idea whatever about things that may physically go away and platform > drivers don't expect that devices may vanish from under them in > general and so on. Unregistration alone doesn't help much with that, > so IMO at least for now it's better to avoid using platform_device for > hot-removable stuff. Okay, thanks for the explanation. So patch 2 could be dropped, should I resend without that patch or do you want to pick them up from this post? Joerg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html