[PATCH 2/3] powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend: Prevent unloading the driver

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Thu Jul 7 18:44:26 AEST 2022



Le 07/07/2022 à 08:14, Uwe Kleine-König a écrit :
> Returning an error in .remove() doesn't prevent a driver from being
> unloaded. On unbind this only results in an error message, but the
> device is remove anyhow.
> 
> I guess the author's idea of just returning -EPERM in .remove() was to
> prevent unbinding a device. To achieve that set the suppress_bind_attrs
> driver property and drop the useless .remove callback.
> 
> This is a preparation for making platform remove callbacks return void.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>


> ---
>   arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend.c | 7 +------
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend.c
> index 30b7700a2c98..309f42ab63d4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/suspend.c
> @@ -421,18 +421,13 @@ static int pmc_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> -static int pmc_remove(struct platform_device *ofdev)
> -{
> -	return -EPERM;
> -};
> -
>   static struct platform_driver pmc_driver = {
>   	.driver = {
>   		.name = "mpc83xx-pmc",
>   		.of_match_table = pmc_match,
> +		.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
>   	},
>   	.probe = pmc_probe,
> -	.remove = pmc_remove
>   };
>   
>   builtin_platform_driver(pmc_driver);


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