Re: spi: stm32-qspi: Update spi registering

From: Patrice CHOTARD
Date: Wed Jan 12 2022 - 08:18:24 EST


Hi Mark

On 1/6/22 2:51 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 02:20:52PM +0100, patrice.chotard@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Replace devm_spi_register_master() by spi_register_master() to ensure
>> that spi sub-nodes are unregistered in the correct order when qspi driver
>> is removed.
>
> This commit message doesn't describe the actual issue. The change is
> fixing ordering within the driver itself - the driver is freeing things
> in the remove() callback which are used by the controller but thanks to
> the use of devm the controller isn't unregistered from the core until
> after the remove() callback has run so we might still have something
> running. "Subnodes" aren't an issue here.

OK i will update this comment to be clearer.

>
> Please submit patches using subject lines reflecting the style for the
> subsystem, this makes it easier for people to identify relevant patches.
> Look at what existing commits in the area you're changing are doing and
> make sure your subject lines visually resemble what they're doing.
> There's no need to resubmit to fix this alone.
>

Agree, i forgot to use the correct script to submit patches to ML.

Thanks
Patrice