Re: [RFC PATCH 3/7] drivers/zio: core files for the ZIO input/output

Federico Vaga
2011-11-26T22:56:23Z

In data sabato 26 novembre 2011 12:03:41, Greg KH ha scritto:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 06:30:42PM +0100, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > +static struct kobj_type zdktype = { /* For standard and extended
> > attribute */ + .release = NULL,
>
> Sweet!
>
> As-per the in-kernel documentation, I now get to mock you for doing
> this :)
>
> Please NEVER DO THIS, you are ignoring the messages that the kernel
> sends you when you remove one of these devices, and causing a memory
> leak.

Honestly we never see any messages about this.

> Not nice at all, yet another reason to use a 'struct device'.

I don't think is a valid reason, because device_release implementation require
us to implement a release method within device, or device_type or class; so we
can use kobj_type as well.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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Federico Vaga