Re: [PATCH 3/5] gpio: ath79: Make the driver removable

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Feb 10 2016 - 05:13:48 EST


On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> As we now allow the driver to be built as a module it should be
>> removable.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel <albeu@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c | 10 ++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c
>> index afb535e..6b15792 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.c
>> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static int ath79_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> ctrl = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*ctrl), GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (!ctrl)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>> + platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ctrl);
>>
>> if (np) {
>> err = of_property_read_u32(np, "ngpios", &ath79_gpio_count);
>> @@ -97,12 +98,21 @@ static int ath79_gpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> +static int ath79_gpio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> +{
>> + struct ath79_gpio_ctrl *ctrl = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> platform_get_drvdata will return a gpio_chip *.

No it will return a struct ath79_gpio_ctrl * AFAICT.

bgpio will set the driver data to the gc but not when using generic gpio
as library like this driver does, only when it is used as a stand-alone device.

Yours,
Linus Walleij