On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:31 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 01:31:23PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote: > > Le 01/06/2020 à 10:58, Robert Jarzmik a écrit : > > > Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > Commit 6d33ee7a0534 ("pinctrl: pxa: Use devm_pinctrl_register() for pinctrl registration") > > > > has turned a 'pinctrl_register()' into 'devm_pinctrl_register()' in > > > > 'pxa2xx_pinctrl_init()'. > > > > However, the corresponding 'pinctrl_unregister()' call in > > > > 'pxa2xx_pinctrl_exit()' has not been removed. > > > > > > > > This is not an issue, because 'pxa2xx_pinctrl_exit()' is unused. > > > > Remove it now to avoid some wondering in the future and save a few LoC. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > Would be even a better patch with a : > > > Fixes: 6d33ee7a0534 ("pinctrl: pxa: Use devm_pinctrl_register() for pinctrl registration") > > > > I was wondering it was was needed in this case. > > The patch does not really fix anything, as the function is unused. Or it > > fixes things on a theoretical point of view. > > There is no concensus... We should call a vote on this at Kernel > Summit. :P Fixes means it fixes something that was wrong in that commit. That's all. Whether syntactic or semantic or regression or serious or not does not matter. It is also not compulsory to add it is just helpful. If it is a regression or critical bug, we also add Cc: stable. Yours, Linus Walleij