linux-kernel - Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon class driver registration with a device number

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Message-ID: <20111006190752.GA28455@ericsson.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Oct 2011 12:07:52 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Himanshu Chauhan <hschauhan@...ltrace.org>,
	"lm-sensors@...sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org" <kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon class driver registration with a
 device number

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 02:25:00PM -0400, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:40:11AM +0530, Himanshu Chauhan wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > > 
> > > How do you later remove a device created with this new interface?  As it
> > > is, I think the existing calls will fail, right?
> > > 
> > If I have not missed out anything from hwmon_device_unregister(), it shouldn't
> > fail. Why did you point that out?
> 
> If you create a device with a call to device_create() with a dev_t set,
> it is usually cleaned up with a call to device_destroy(), but you are
> right, a simple call to device_unregister() will still work properly.
> 
> So nevermind, sorry for the noise.
> 
Not entirely noise. Since the new registration call is not exported in the patch,
any code using it won't be compilable as module, which in turn means
that hwmon_device_unregister() was never called.
So while we know that it _should_ work, we also know that it was not tested.

> What you do need to determine is if this is a device node you really
> want to be creating in this manner, as it is a new user/kernel API,
> right?
> 
And why, and what for.

Guenter
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