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From: William Breathitt Gray <wbg@kernel.org>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: William Breathitt Gray <wbg@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
	driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isa: switch to dynamic root device
Date: Sun,  3 May 2026 14:08:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260503050801.427989-1-wbg@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260424102400.2615677-1-johan@kernel.org>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 12:24:00PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Driver core expects devices to be dynamically allocated and will, for
> example, complain loudly if a device that lacks a release function is
> ever freed.
> 
> Use root_device_register() to allocate and register the root device
> instead of open coding using a static device.
> 
> Note that this also fixes a reference leak in case device_register()
> fails which may be flagged by static checkers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

Hi Johan,

Would you resend with a Fixes tag and CC stable@vger.kernel.org so we
can get this patch picked up in the stable trees as well?

Thanks,

William Breathitt Gray

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-03  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-24 10:24 [PATCH] isa: switch to dynamic root device Johan Hovold
2026-05-03  5:08 ` William Breathitt Gray [this message]
2026-05-03 15:50   ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-05-04  6:35     ` William Breathitt Gray
2026-05-04  6:52       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-05-04  7:05         ` William Breathitt Gray
2026-05-04 20:32 ` Danilo Krummrich

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