Re: [PATCH 3/5] staging: most: remove driver owner

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:13:38PM +0200, Andrey Shvetsov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:22:04PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > The platform driver core will set the owner value, we do not need to do
> > it in the module.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> > index 5b0a588..4481a0b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_hdm.c
> > @@ -923,7 +923,6 @@ static struct platform_driver dim2_driver = {
> >  	.id_table = dim2_id,
> >  	.driver = {
> >  		.name = "hdm_dim2",
> > -		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
> I cannot accept this.
> 
> This change is not significant for current kernel, but we still have customers
> using kernels <= 3.10, where auto assignment of .owner does not exist.
But this patch is for 4.4-rc1, and it is not marked for stable. Then how
is it going to affect your customers who are still using <=3.10?

regards
sudip