patch "iio: magnetometer: ak8974: remove incorrect __exit markups" added to staging-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

iio: magnetometer: ak8974: remove incorrect __exit markups

to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 15:37:57 -0800
Subject: iio: magnetometer: ak8974: remove incorrect __exit markups

Even if bus is not hot-pluggable, devices can be unbound from the driver via sysfs, so we should not be using __exit annotations on remove() methods. The only exception is drivers registered with platform_driver_probe() which specifically disables sysfs bind/unbind attributes.

---
 drivers/iio/magnetometer/ak8974.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index 6dd8cbd7ce95..e13370dc9b1c 100644
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ static int ak8974_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int __exit ak8974_remove(struct i2c_client *i2c)
+static int ak8974_remove(struct i2c_client *i2c)
 {
 	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = i2c_get_clientdata(i2c);
 	struct ak8974 *ak8974 = iio_priv(indio_dev);

@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ static struct i2c_driver ak8974_driver = {
 		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(ak8974_of_match),
 	},
 	.probe	  = ak8974_probe,
-	.remove	  = __exit_p(ak8974_remove),
+	.remove	  = ak8974_remove,
 	.id_table = ak8974_id,
 };
 module_i2c_driver(ak8974_driver);

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