Hello Sakari,

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 09:43:09PM +0000, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:26:55PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:20:09PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 05:00:44PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > Using __exit for the remove function results in the remove callback
> > > > being discarded with CONFIG_VIDEO_ET8EK8=y. When such a device gets
> > > > unbound (e.g. using sysfs or hotplug), the driver is just removed
> > > > without the cleanup being performed. This results in resource leaks. Fix
> > > > it by compiling in the remove callback unconditionally.
> > > > 
> > > > This also fixes a W=1 modpost warning:
> > > > 
> > > > 	WARNING: modpost: drivers/media/i2c/et8ek8/et8ek8: section mismatch in reference: et8ek8_i2c_driver+0x10 (section: .data) -> et8ek8_remove (section: .exit.text)
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: c5254e72b8ed ("[media] media: Driver for Toshiba et8ek8 5MP sensor")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > > 
> > > I wonder if I failed to make the commit log drastic enough as the patch
> > > wasn't picked up yet. This is a fix for a resource leak and IMHO should
> > > qualify to go in before v6.9 (though I admit it gets late for that).
> > > 
> > > Did I address the right people?
> > 
> > Oh, I fatfingered my git cmdline and so missed this patch is in next
> > already. I still think getting it into v6.9 would have been nice, but I
> > won't argue if it goes into v6.10-rc1.
> 
> You should have received an e-mail from Patchwork when it got applied to my
> tree (or around that time).

Oh, I did indeed. It would be great (at least for my workflow) if these
notifications had an In-Reply-To header to thread with the original
mail. Hmm, maybe that's not so easy as the notification might contain
information about >1 patch. Hmm.

> It may still take a long time for it to be in linux-next and that's of
> course quite confusing. That will change eventually as we're amidst
> changing the process but we're not there yet.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Best regards
Uwe

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