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Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: meson: rename driver name to meson-drm

From Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: meson: rename driver name to meson-drm
Date 2017-02-02 11:50 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> The platform driver name is currently "meson" which can lead to some
> confusion, this patch renames it to "meson-drm" and removes the owner
> attribute.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c
> index ff1f601..380bde7 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c
> @@ -329,8 +329,7 @@ static int meson_drv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	.probe      = meson_drv_probe,
>  	.remove     = meson_drv_remove,
>  	.driver     = {
> -		.owner  = THIS_MODULE,

I don't get why you remove this, generally that will lead to trouble of
being able to unload code that's still in use ...

Otherwise ack.

Now, do you want to get this landed as part of the small drivers in
drm-mis experiment?
-Daniel

> -		.name   = DRIVER_NAME,
> +		.name	= "meson-drm",
>  		.of_match_table = dt_match,
>  	},
>  };
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch

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[PATCH 0/2] drm: meson: Fixup driver and module name  Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> - 2017-02-02 10:50 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] drm: meson: rename driver name to meson-drm Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> - 2017-02-02 10:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: meson: rename driver name to meson-drm Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2017-02-02 11:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: meson: rename driver name to meson-drm Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> - 2017-02-02 12:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm: meson: rename driver name to meson-drm Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2017-02-02 13:10 +0100

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