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Message-ID: <20070209003934.GA30794@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:39:34 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: device_destroy

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:51:08PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> While porting over a few class_devices I discovered a problem with 
> device_destroy. It uses a dev_t which several classes don't use. 
> Should all classes require a dev_t or should we just pass in the device
> itself?

As you don't have a dev_t, then you have a handle to the 'struct device'
itself, right?  Then just call device_unregister(), that's all that
device_destroy() does after it finds the device in the list of devices
associated with the class.

Does this help?

thanks,

greg k-h
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