linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] Adding dummy release functions to avoid warnings.

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Date:	Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:32:37 +0300
From:	Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devzero@....de, jsun@...sun.net, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	protasnb@...il.com, linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Adding dummy release functions to avoid
	warnings.

Andrew,

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:39:46 +0300 "Vitaliy Ivanov" <vitalivanov@...il.com> wrote:
> > Trivial fix for #9690.
> > Added simple release functions that doing nothing.
> > Not sure whether we can leave it as is or to rework using
> > platform_device helpers like platform_device_alloc.
> 
> Please see Documentation/kobject.txt - search for the text
> "mocked mercilessly" :)
> 
> > This approach is used in many drivers.
> > --
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c |    6 ++++++
> 
> Let's mock David too!

Damn. I knew that everything is not so easy here;) Got it. Tnx.

But in such case there are _again_ many drivers that do implement such
fake functions. Again is because when I tried to port some usb driver
there were issues with locking that was not correct but many drivers
worked exactly this incorrect way.

Anyway, tnx for clarifying this.

V.

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