power_supply: Change ownership from driver to core
Change the ownership of power_supply structure from each driver implementing the class to the power supply core. The patch changes power_supply_register() function thus all drivers implementing power supply class are adjusted. Each driver provides the implementation of power supply. However it should not be the owner of power supply class instance because it is exposed by core to other subsystems with power_supply_get_by_name(). These other subsystems have no knowledge when the driver will unregister the power supply. This leads to several issues when driver is unbound - mostly because user of power supply accesses freed memory. Instead let the core own the instance of struct 'power_supply'. Other users of this power supply will still access valid memory because it will be freed when device reference count reaches 0. Currently this means "it will leak" but power_supply_put() call in next patches will solve it. This solves invalid memory references in...
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