Even if bus is not hot-pluggable, devices can be unbound from the driver via sysfs, so we should not be using __exit annotations on remove() methods. The only exception is drivers registered with platform_driver_probe() which specifically disables sysfs bind/unbind attributes. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/i2c/ad5820.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ad5820.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ad5820.c index a9026a91855e..3d2a3c6b67d8 100644 --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ad5820.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ad5820.c @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static int ad5820_probe(struct i2c_client *client, return ret; } -static int __exit ad5820_remove(struct i2c_client *client) +static int ad5820_remove(struct i2c_client *client) { struct v4l2_subdev *subdev = i2c_get_clientdata(client); struct ad5820_device *coil = to_ad5820_device(subdev); @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static struct i2c_driver ad5820_i2c_driver = { .pm = &ad5820_pm, }, .probe = ad5820_probe, - .remove = __exit_p(ad5820_remove), + .remove = ad5820_remove, .id_table = ad5820_id_table, }; -- 2.12.0.rc1.440.g5b76565f74-goog -- Dmitry