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From:   Saubhik Mukherjee <saubhik.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Subject: [question] De-registration does not remove port
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        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
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        Pavel Andrianov <andrianov@ispras.ru>
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Date:   Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:42:36 +0530
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In drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c, arc_serial_remove always returns 0, 
instead of calling uart_remove_one_port to remove uart port from serial 
core. The comment says "This will be never be called". In my 
understanding, a port added using uart_add_one_port should be removed 
during de-registration.

Is there a reason for this behavior?