Re: [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:25 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >> Fix the virtio bus instead.
> > 
> > Yeah, the patch I posted wasn't meant as a fix for this traceback.
> 
> So what's the module_get patch needed for?

A misguided attempt to create an artificial dependency between virtio
device drivers and the virtio bus implementation?

> > Here's one that does fix it.
> ...
> > From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] virtio: add device release() function
> > 
> > Add a release() function for virtio_pci devices so as to avoid:
> > 
> >   Device 'virtio0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed
> > 
> > The struct device is embedded in the struct virtio_pci_device which
> > is freed by virtio_pci_remove(), so virtio_pci_release_dev() need
> > not actually do anything.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c |    6 ++++++
> >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> > index c7dc37c..7d4899c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> > @@ -70,12 +70,17 @@ static struct pci_device_id virtio_pci_id_table[] = {
> >  
> >  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, virtio_pci_id_table);
> >  
> > +static void virtio_pci_release_dev(struct device *dev)
> > +{
> > +}
> 
> You have to have a strong reason to have empty release. This is not the
> case, you should do the free here, not in remove, I suppose.

Okay, see the other patch I just sent.

> > @@ -328,6 +333,7 @@ static int __devinit virtio_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> >  
> >  	vp_dev->vdev.dev.parent = &virtio_pci_root;
> > +	vp_dev->vdev.dev.release = virtio_pci_release_dev;
> 
> This should rather be in register_virtio_device

Why? Because dev.release should be set by the same place that does
device_register() or ...?

The resources being allocated here are virtio-pci specific, so if we
wanted to do something like this we'd perhaps need to add a ->release()
to struct virtio_device and just call that hook.

Cheers,
Mark.