From: gregkh@suse.de (Greg KH)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: tq 2440
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:51:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100715165141.GA21272@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100715163526.GJ29322@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:35:26PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:16:30PM +0800, Conke Hu wrote:
> > ever notice to the following kernel log?
> > "Device 's3c2440-nand' does not have a release() function, it is
> > broken and must."
> > release() function should be implemented in the platform_device.
>
> That's not telling you to provide a release function. The warning is
> telling you that a device is being unregistered which doesn't have a
> release function.
>
> Consider this point - maybe it doesn't have a release function because
> it's not supposed to be unregistered?
Heh, well, it is being unregistered, and at that point in time, the
kernel complains.
All kobjects need a release function that actually frees it. If not,
that is a logic bug. Please see the Documentation/kobject.txt file for
details.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-15 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 2:31 tq 2440 CoffBeta
2010-07-15 15:16 ` Conke Hu
2010-07-15 16:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-15 16:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-07-15 17:10 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-15 17:22 ` Greg KH
2010-07-15 17:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-15 20:51 ` Greg KH
2010-07-15 21:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-16 8:55 ` Greg KH
2010-07-16 9:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-16 5:40 ` Conke Hu
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