Re: [PATCH 3/3] [MTD] physmap.c: Add a dummy release function

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] [MTD] physmap.c: Add a dummy release function

Please avoid putting the "MTD" inside the [] characters.  Anything
which is inside [] is supposed to be discarded by the patch-receiving
party.  This is for things like [rfc], [patch 3/12], [2.6.27-rc5], etc.

But we do want the "mtd" text to go all the way through into the
mainline git metadata.

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:33:08 -0700
Zev Weiss <zevweiss@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Adding a dummy release function to the physmap device so as to silence a log
> warning on initialization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss <zevweiss@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c |    5 +++++
>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c
> index 49e2039..73a8d3c 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c
> @@ -277,11 +277,16 @@ static struct resource physmap_flash_resource = {
>   	.flags		= IORESOURCE_MEM,
>   };
> 
> +static void physmap_dummy_release(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +}
> +
>   static struct platform_device physmap_flash = {
>   	.name		= "physmap-flash",
>   	.id		= 0,
>   	.dev		= {
>   		.platform_data	= &physmap_flash_data,
> +		.release	= &physmap_dummy_release,
>   	},
>   	.num_resources	= 1,
>   	.resource	= &physmap_flash_resource,

Nope.  Please see Documentation/kobject.txt - search for the text
"mocked mercilessly".