I can't see a reason why these drivers should have additional refcounting on top of what the driver core already does. So, remove it. These patches are compile tested only. Tested-by tags are thus much appreciated! The patches are based on my i2c/for-next branch on kernel.org. Wolfram Sang (3): i2c: davinci: drop superfluous {get|put}_device i2c: designware-plat: drop superfluous {get|put}_device i2c: designware-pci: drop superfluous {get|put}_device drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-davinci.c | 19 ++++++------------- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-pcidrv.c | 4 ---- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-platdrv.c | 4 ---- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html