Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: qup: Remove .owner field for driver

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:47:57AM +0530, Kiran Padwal wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2014 06:39 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Two problems:
> >  - I'm missing patches 1 and 2.

> These patches are same like this one,
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/58
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/52

You should at least be sending the cover letter to everyone so that they
know what's going on.

> >  - This only changes one driver but essentially every SPI driver
> >    initializes .owner - why is only thi sone driver being changed?

> Nothing more intention, but just remove superfluous .owner field for drivers which
> use the module_platform_driver API, as this is overridden in
> platform_driver_register anyway.

My point is that doing a change like this to random drivers isn't great,
if you're going to do this sort of thing it is better to do it for
everything rather than making things inconsistent.

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