Re: [PATCH] gpio: Move freeing of GPIO hogs before numbing of the device

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When removing a gpiochip that uses GPIO hogging (e.g. by unloading the
> chip's DT overlay), a warning is printed:
>
>     gpio gpiochip8: REMOVING GPIOCHIP WITH GPIOS STILL REQUESTED
>
> This happens because gpiochip_free_hogs() is called after the gdev->chip
> pointer is reset to NULL. Hence __gpiod_free() cannot determine the
> chip in use, and cannot clear flags nor call the optional chip-specific
> .free() callback.
>
> Move the call to gpiochip_free_hogs() up to fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to fixes and tagged for stable.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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