Even if bus is not hot-pluggable, the 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.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com --- sound/soc/codecs/cx20442.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/cx20442.c b/sound/soc/codecs/cx20442.c index 0b10979..0f334bc 100644 --- a/sound/soc/codecs/cx20442.c +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/cx20442.c @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static int cx20442_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) &cx20442_codec_dev, &cx20442_dai, 1); }

-static int __exit cx20442_platform_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) +static int cx20442_platform_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { snd_soc_unregister_codec(&pdev->dev); return 0; @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static struct platform_driver cx20442_platform_driver = { .name = "cx20442-codec", }, .probe = cx20442_platform_probe, - .remove = __exit_p(cx20442_platform_remove), + .remove = cx20442_platform_remove, };

module_platform_driver(cx20442_platform_driver);