linux-kernel - Re: device

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702091450120.25221@pentafluge.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:51:12 +0000 (GMT)
From:	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: device_destroy


> > 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?

Okay. I needed to know if calling device_unregister directly was valid.
Thank you.

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