From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] warn when statically-allocated kobjects are used
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:49:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603222249.22620.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060317174352.GA2840@suse.de>
On Friday 17 March 2006 12:43, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:04:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > +warn:
> > > + printk("---- begin silly warning ----\n");
> > > + printk("This is a janitorial warning, not a kernel bug.\n");
> >
> > technically it IS a kernel bug ;)
>
> Until we fix up all of the struct bus and decl_subsys() usages in the
> kernel, this should show a lot of false positives...
>
Plus IIRC ARM creates bunch of platform devices which are statically
allocated. But because they never get unregistered everything works
just fine.
--
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-23 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 1:30 [RFC][PATCH] warn when statically-allocated kobjects are used Dave Hansen
2006-03-17 16:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-17 17:43 ` Greg KH
2006-03-23 3:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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