Re: [PATCH] Try 2, Fix release function in IPMI device model

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

>On 3/22/06, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
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>>On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:45:01PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
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>>>Ok, one more try.  Russell, I assume you mean to use
>>>platform_device_alloc(), which seems to do what you suggested.
>>>And I assume the driver_data is the way to store whatever you
>>>need, instead of using the container_of() macro.
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>>>Arjun, Russell, thanks for the info.
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>>>Now the patch...
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>>>Arjun van de Ven pointed out that the changeover to the driver model
>>>in the IPMI driver had some bugs in it dealing with the release
>>>function and cleanup.  Then Russell King pointed out that you can't
>>>put release functions in the same module as the unregistering code.
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>>Yes you can, you just have to properly set up the module attribute
>>owners and it will work just fine.
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>No, not really. You can only do that if _all_ sysfs attributes for the
>object are handled in your driver which is rarely the case (dev,
>/power/* attributes, etc).
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I don't see an owner field in the device structure.  So you are
saying that if the same module owns the device_driver structure,
it is safe, but if not it is not safe.

-Corey