On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 02:07:02PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> Few drivers implement remove call-back only for ensuring a delayed
> work gets cancelled prior driver removal. Clean-up these by switching
> to use devm_delayed_work_autocancel() instead.
>
> This change is compile-tested only. All testing is appreciated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/raspberrypi-hwmon.c | 16 +++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/raspberrypi-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/raspberrypi-hwmon.c
> index d3a64a35f7a9..acfa674932bc 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/raspberrypi-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/raspberrypi-hwmon.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ static int rpi_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> struct rpi_hwmon_data *data;
> + int ret;
>
> data = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!data)
> @@ -119,7 +120,10 @@ static int rpi_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> &rpi_chip_info,
> NULL);
>
> - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&data->get_values_poll_work, get_values_poll);
> + ret = devm_delayed_work_autocancel(dev, &data->get_values_poll_work,
> + get_values_poll);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> platform_set_drvdata(pdev, data);
>
> if (!PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(data->hwmon_dev))
> @@ -128,18 +132,8 @@ static int rpi_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(data->hwmon_dev);
> }
>
> -static int rpi_hwmon_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> -{
> - struct rpi_hwmon_data *data = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> -
> - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&data->get_values_poll_work);
> -
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> static struct platform_driver rpi_hwmon_driver = {
> .probe = rpi_hwmon_probe,
> - .remove = rpi_hwmon_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "raspberrypi-hwmon",
> },
So if I manually unbind the driver from the device, and then unload the
driver, what happens?
thanks,
greg k-h
