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From: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/12] fpga: dfl: fme: add global error reporting
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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 10:45:22 +0800
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 05:56:26PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 06:20:21PM +0800, Wu Hao wrote:
> > +static int fme_global_err_init(struct platform_device *pdev,
> > +			       struct dfl_feature *feature)
> > +{
> > +	struct device *dev;
> > +	int ret = 0;
> > +
> > +	dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!dev)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	dev->parent = &pdev->dev;
> > +	dev->release = err_dev_release;
> > +	dev_set_name(dev, "errors");
> > +
> > +	fme_error_enable(feature);
> > +
> > +	ret = device_register(dev);
> > +	if (ret) {
> > +		put_device(dev);
> > +		return ret;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	ret = device_add_groups(dev, error_groups);
> 
> cute, but no, you do not create a whole struct device for a subdir.  Use
> the attribute group name like you did on earlier patches.

Sure, let me fix it in the next version.

> 
> And again, you raced userspace and lost :(

Same here, could you please give some more hints here?

Thanks in advance.
Hao

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h