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Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: most: remove driver owner

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On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:22:04PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> The platform driver core will set the owner value, we do not need to do
> it in the module.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> index 5b0a588..4481a0b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> @@ -923,7 +923,6 @@ static struct platform_driver dim2_driver = {
>  	.id_table = dim2_id,
>  	.driver = {
>  		.name = "hdm_dim2",
> -		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
I cannot accept this.

This change is not significant for current kernel, but we still have customers
using kernels <= 3.10, where auto assignment of .owner does not exist.

>  	},
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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[PATCH 1/5] staging: most: remove always true comparison Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3/5] staging: most: remove driver owner Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: most: remove driver owner Andrey Shvetsov <andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de> - 2015-09-07 14:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: most: remove driver owner Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 14:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: most: remove driver owner Andrey Shvetsov <andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de> - 2015-09-08 12:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: most: remove driver owner Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-09-08 18:50 +0200
  [PATCH 5/5] staging: most: style of bool comparison Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 13:00 +0200

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