linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: cleanup sysfs entries during remove

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Message-ID: <20161114030452.GH3000@localhost>
Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:34:53 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org,
        cov@...eaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: cleanup sysfs entries during
 remove

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:42:46PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> The 4.8-rc8 kernel is printing duplicate file entry warnings while removing
> the HIDMA object. This is caused by stale sysfs entries remaining from the
> previous execution.
> 
> _sysfs_warn_dup+0x5c/0x78
>  sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x13c/0x1c0
>  sysfs_create_file_ns+0x2c/0x40
>  device_create_file+0x54/0xa0
>  hidma_probe+0x7c8/0x808
> 
> Create hidma_sysfs_init and hidma_sysfs_uninit functions and call them from
> the probe and remove path. To do proper clean up, adding the attrs object
> to the device data structure to keep it around until remove call is made.

This doesnt apply for me, I think due to other patches applied..

-- 
~Vinod