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Message-ID: <20150109232712.GA1878@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 15:27:12 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Mandeep Sandhu <mandeep.sandhu@...ninc.com>
Cc: hjk@...sjkoch.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] staging: uio: Simplify the lifetime logic of struct
uio_device.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:52:21AM -0800, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
> Embed struct device into struct uio_device, and use
> the refcounting and the release method of struct device
> to control struct uio_device.
>
> This allows device_create and device_destroy to be replaced
> with the more standard device_register and device_unregister,
> and allows the struct device reference count to act as a
> reference count on struct idev as well.
>
> Tested-by: Mandeep Sandhu <mandeep.sandhu@...ninc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Sandhu <mandeep.sandhu@...ninc.com>
> ---
> drivers/uio/uio.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> include/linux/uio_driver.h | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
The subject makes no sense, this has nothing to do with the staging tree
:(
Please fix up and resend this series.
thanks,
greg k-h
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