Re: [PATCH]drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c:call cdev_del during module_exit to unmap kobject references and other cleanups.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Thayumanavar Sachithanantham" <thayumk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> During module unloading, cdev_del be called to unmap cdev related
> kobject references and other cleanups(such as inode->i_cdev being set
> to NULL) which prevents the OOPS upon subsequent loading ,usage and
> unloading of modules(as
> seen in the mail thread
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114533640609018&w=2).
> Patch against 2.6.17-rc1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thayumanavar Sachithanantham <thayumk@gmail.com>
> 
> --- linux-2.6/drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c.orig   2006-04-17
> 21:37:25.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/cs5535_gpio.c        2006-04-17
> 21:38:24.000000000 -0700
> @@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static int __init cs5535_gpio_init(void)
>  static void __exit cs5535_gpio_cleanup(void)
>  {
>         dev_t dev_id = MKDEV(major, 0);
> +        cdev_del(&cs5535_gpio_cdev);
>         unregister_chrdev_region(dev_id, CS5535_GPIO_COUNT);

Fair enough.  Please note that your patch was wordwrapped and had its tabs
replaced with spaces.


>         if (gpio_base != 0)
>                 release_region(gpio_base, CS5535_GPIO_SIZE);

>From my reading, this test of gpio_base is unneeded and wrong, btw. 
Probably it can't be zero anyway...