On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:13:38PM +0200, Andrey Shvetsov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:22:04PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > The platform driver core will set the owner value, we do not need to do
> > it in the module.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> > index 5b0a588..4481a0b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> > @@ -923,7 +923,6 @@ static struct platform_driver dim2_driver = {
> > .id_table = dim2_id,
> > .driver = {
> > .name = "hdm_dim2",
> > - .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> I cannot accept this.
>
> This change is not significant for current kernel, but we still have customers
> using kernels <= 3.10, where auto assignment of .owner does not exist.
But this patch is for 4.4-rc1, and it is not marked for stable. Then how
is it going to affect your customers who are still using <=3.10?
regards
sudip
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