On today's platforms the memory savings of putting the remove function
in .exit isn't that relevant any more. It only matters for built-in
drivers and typically saves a few 100k.

The downside is that the driver cannot be unbound at runtime which is
ancient and also slightly complicates testing. Also it requires to mark
the driver struct with __refdata which is needed to suppress a (W=1)
modpost warning:

        WARNING: modpost: drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi: 
section mismatch in reference: panel_dpi_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> 
panel_dpi_remove (section: .exit.text)

To simplify matters, move the remove callback to .text and drop
.suppress_bind_attrs = true.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c 
b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c
index 9790053c5877..aa6faa5ba158 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-dpi.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int panel_dpi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        return r;
 }
 
-static int __exit panel_dpi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int panel_dpi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
        struct panel_drv_data *ddata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
        struct omap_dss_device *dssdev = &ddata->dssdev;
@@ -236,11 +236,10 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, panel_dpi_of_match);
 
 static struct platform_driver panel_dpi_driver = {
        .probe = panel_dpi_probe,
-       .remove = __exit_p(panel_dpi_remove),
+       .remove = panel_dpi_remove,
        .driver = {
                .name = "panel-dpi",
                .of_match_table = panel_dpi_of_match,
-               .suppress_bind_attrs = true,
        },
 };
 
-- 
2.42.0

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