From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] um: virtio_uml: switch to dynamic root device
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:57:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aiwsczUnvyWS3dYL@hovoldconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260424103101.2616338-1-johan@kernel.org>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 12:31:01PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Driver core expects devices to be dynamically allocated and will, for
> example, complain loudly when no release function has been provided.
>
> Use __root_device_register() to allocate and register the root device
> instead of open coding using a static device.
>
> Note that root_device_register(), which also creates a link to the
> module, cannot be used as the device is registered when parsing the
> module parameters which happens before the module kobject has been
> set up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> ---
Can this one be picked up now?
Johan
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2026-04-24 10:31 [PATCH] um: virtio_uml: switch to dynamic root device Johan Hovold
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