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From: Yurii Pavlovskyi <yurii.pavlovskyi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix hwmon device cleanup
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:49:50 +0200
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Hello Daniel,

thank you for the tip. I did not know about this function. It does indeed
seem to make this complete patch redundant looking at
6e5f62b9e3651e61 hwmon: (lm90) Use devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups

I will surely implement it this way in the next version.

Best regards,
Yurii

On 11.04.19 10:21, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 4:21 AM Yurii Pavlovskyi
> <yurii.pavlovskyi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The asus-wmi driver does not clean up the hwmon device on exit or error.
>> To reproduce the bug, repeat rmmod, insmod to verify that device number
>> /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/hwmon/hwmon?? grows every time. Add
>> pointer to the device in module state and call cleanup on error.
> 
> I wonder if this can be fixed more cleanly by using
> devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups() ?
> 
> Thanks
> Daniel
>