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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] soc: bcm: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc IDM driver
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On 12/7/19 9:52 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>
>
> On 12/6/2019 5:15 PM, Ray Jui wrote:
>>>
>>> Did not you intend to drop the reference count on elog_np here?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not following this comment. Could you please help to clarify
>> for me a bit more? Thanks!
>
> I meant that you drop the reference count on 'np' but you called
> functions that incremented the reference count on 'elog_np', so maybe
> you are not doing the of_node_put() on the appropriate device_node
> reference?
>

Okay thanks. I'll look into this in more details and make corrections if
needed.

>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> +static struct platform_driver iproc_idm_driver = {
>>>> +    .probe = iproc_idm_probe,
>>>
>>> Do not you need a remove function in order to unregister the sysfs file
>>> that you created in iproc_idm_dev_probe() to avoid bind/unbind (or
>>> rmmod/modprobe) to spit out an existing sysfs entry warning?
>>>
>>
>> This driver should never be compiled as a module. It's meant to be
>> always there to capture IDM bus timeouts.
>>
>> But you are right that I cannot prevent user from trying to unbind it
>> for whatever reason. I'll add a remove routine to take care of this.
>
> You can also set suppress_bind_attrs to your platform_driver structure
> to prevent unbind/bind from happening.
>

Great. This is what I'll do then. I meant to have this driver stays
loaded/binded all the time once probed.

Thanks,

Ray

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