On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxx> > > Currently there are a few drivers that still set the .owner > in the i2c_driver structure - all of which are reported by > coccinelle (scripts/coccinelle/api/platform_no_drv_owner.cocci) > and there are no cases that set the .onwer and do not call any > of the functions that set the .owner field anyway in any of the > drivers (checked by a modified coccinelle script based on the > above) so it seems that the examples are no longer valid and > .owner = THIS_MODULE, can be removed here. > > While at it an obvious typo (new new) was also fixed. AFAIU It is right only in case when someone does this, e.g. module_i2c_driver() macro. Otherwise the field is pretty valid and must be filled. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
