On today's platforms the memory savings of putting the remove function
in .exit isn't that relevant any more. It only matters for built-in
drivers and typically saves a few 100k.
The downside is that the driver cannot be unbound at runtime which is
ancient and also slightly complicates testing. Also it requires to mark
the driver struct with __refdata which is needed to suppress a (W=1)
modpost warning:
WARNING: modpost: drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01: section mismatch in reference: sharp_ls_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> sharp_ls_remove (section: .exit.text)
To simplify matters, move the remove callback to .text and drop
.suppress_bind_attrs = true.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01.c
index cc30758300e2..d228d74f3bd5 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int sharp_ls_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return r;
}
-static int __exit sharp_ls_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int sharp_ls_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct panel_drv_data *ddata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct omap_dss_device *dssdev = &ddata->dssdev;
@@ -317,11 +317,10 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sharp_ls_of_match);
static struct platform_driver sharp_ls_driver = {
.probe = sharp_ls_probe,
- .remove = __exit_p(sharp_ls_remove),
+ .remove = sharp_ls_remove,
.driver = {
.name = "panel-sharp-ls037v7dw01",
.of_match_table = sharp_ls_of_match,
- .suppress_bind_attrs = true,
},
};
--
2.42.0
