From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 01cca93a9491ed95992523ff7e79dd9bfcdea8e0 upstream. Unregister gpiochip device (used to export information through sysfs) before removing it internally. This way removal will reverse addition. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 8a9b61adcd87..9ba1bb0edab3 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -1257,6 +1257,8 @@ int gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *chip) int status = 0; unsigned id; + gpiochip_unexport(chip); + spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); gpiochip_remove_pin_ranges(chip); @@ -1277,9 +1279,6 @@ int gpiochip_remove(struct gpio_chip *chip) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags); - if (status == 0) - gpiochip_unexport(chip); - return status; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_remove); -- 2.3.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html