Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/4] core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 11 2014 - 00:31:42 EST


On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:32:08PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> > + if (!drv->owner)
> > + printk(KERN_WARNING "Driver '%s' needs an owner", drv->name);
>
> This showed up in next-20141110 and on ia64 I see 44 "needs an owner" messages,
> even from drivers like e1000.
>
> Anyone else seeing anything like that? Or is some ia64 initialization path
> missing an update?

Yes, sorry, this patch is now reverted.

greg k-h
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