Device does not have a release() function

Device does not have a release() function

[Avuton Olrich]

Please excuse me if this has already been discussed. Anything else
that's needed please let me know.

kernel: Linux version 2.6.20-rc2 (sbh@rocket) (gcc version 4.1.1
(Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #6 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 28 21:07:58 PST 2006

Spotted this in the dmesg:

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Fixed PHY: Registered new driver
driver_bound: device fixed@100:1 already bound
Device 'fixed@100:1' does not have a release() function, it is broken
and must be fixed.
WARNING at /usr/src/linux-stable/drivers/base/core.c:104 device_release()
 [<c027bbf9>] kobject_cleanup+0x49/0x90
 [<c027bc40>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10
 [<c027c8ea>] kref_put+0x2a/0xa0
 [<c05762bc>] fixed_init+0x1bc/0x210
 [<c01003f0>] init+0x70/0x2a0
 [<c0102f82>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x1c
 [<c0100380>] init+0x0/0x2a0
 [<c0100380>] init+0x0/0x2a0
 [<c0103c73>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
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Sorry for all the links, but it's about 80K of info:

http://avuton.googlepages.com/config.txt
http://avuton.googlepages.com/cpuinfo.txt
http://avuton.googlepages.com/dmesg.txt
http://avuton.googlepages.com/lspci-vvv.txt
http://avuton.googlepages.com/proc-iomem.txt
http://avuton.googlepages.com/proc-ioports.txt
http://avuton.googlepages.com/ver_linux.txt
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Re: Device does not have a release() function

[Vitaly Bordug]

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Avuton,

Thanks for this report, 

> Please excuse me if this has already been discussed. Anything else
> that's needed please let me know.
> 
> kernel: Linux version 2.6.20-rc2 (sbh@rocket) (gcc version 4.1.1
> (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #6 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 28 21:07:58 PST 2006
> 
> Spotted this in the dmesg:
[...]

Maybe some additional failure case is not handled, I'll have a look at it.

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Sincerely, Vitaly

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Re: Device does not have a release() function

[Avuton Olrich]

On 1/2/07, Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> Avuton,
>
> Thanks for this report,
>
> > Please excuse me if this has already been discussed. Anything else
> > that's needed please let me know.
> >
> > kernel: Linux version 2.6.20-rc2 (sbh@rocket) (gcc version 4.1.1
> > (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #6 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 28 21:07:58 PST 2006
> >
> > Spotted this in the dmesg:
> [...]
>
> Maybe some additional failure case is not handled, I'll have a look at it.

Just need to mention all the information in the URLs is correct,
unfortunately I got the above version info from another box by
accident, so disreguard it please.
-- 
avuton
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