On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:06:44AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> The main problem is that representing anything hot-removable as a
> platform device is inherently fragile, as the platform bus type has no
> idea whatever about things that may physically go away and platform
> drivers don't expect that devices may vanish from under them in
> general and so on. Unregistration alone doesn't help much with that,
> so IMO at least for now it's better to avoid using platform_device for
> hot-removable stuff.
Okay, thanks for the explanation. So patch 2 could be dropped, should I
resend without that patch or do you want to pick them up from this post?
Joerg
