FAILED: patch "[PATCH] spi: meson-spicc: fix controller deregistration" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 77953c76bec9af4191f8692a10225dd816208718
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026051554-shimmer-hedging-9270@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 77953c76bec9af4191f8692a10225dd816208718 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 14:04:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spi: meson-spicc: fix controller deregistration

Make sure to deregister the controller before disabling it to allow SPI device drivers to do I/O during deregistration.

index 57768da3205d..b80f9f457b66 100644
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ static int meson_spicc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		}
 	}
 
-	ret = devm_spi_register_controller(&pdev->dev, host);
+	ret = spi_register_controller(host);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "spi registration failed\n");
 		goto out_host;

@@ -1099,8 +1099,14 @@ static void meson_spicc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct meson_spicc_device *spicc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
+	spi_controller_get(spicc->host);
+
+	spi_unregister_controller(spicc->host);
+
 	/* Disable SPI */
 	writel(0, spicc->base + SPICC_CONREG);
+
+	spi_controller_put(spicc->host);
 }
 
 static const struct meson_spicc_data meson_spicc_gx_data = {