Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] extcon: driver model release call not needed

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 02:12:06AM +0900, anish kumar wrote:
> From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
> 
> We don't need a release call in this file as we are doing
> everything needed in unregister call and we don't have any
> more pointer to free up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c
> index 946a318..cf30eb1 100644
> --- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c
> +++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c
> @@ -585,9 +585,7 @@ static void extcon_cleanup(struct extcon_dev *edev, bool skip)
>  
>  static void extcon_dev_release(struct device *dev)
>  {
> -	struct extcon_dev *edev = (struct extcon_dev *) dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> -
> -	extcon_cleanup(edev, true);
> +	/* We don't have any thing to free here */
>  }

In the future (I know you fixed this up), doing an empty release()
function will get you in big trouble.  Please read the kobject
documentation for more information about why this is.

greg k-h