Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] remoteproc: core: Move cdev add before device add

Greg KH
2021-06-15T04:54:05Z

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 07:21:08PM -0700, Siddharth Gupta wrote:
> When cdev_add is called after device_add has been called there is no
> way for the userspace to know about the addition of a cdev as cdev_add
> itself doesn't trigger a uevent notification, or for the kernel to
> know about the change to devt. This results in two problems:
> - mknod is never called for the cdev and hence no cdev appears on
> devtmpfs.
> - sysfs links to the new cdev are not established.
>
> The cdev needs to be added and devt assigned before device_add() is
> called in order for the relevant sysfs and devtmpfs entries to be
> created and the uevent to be properly populated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Gupta <sidgup@codeaurora.org>
> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.