linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix hwmon device cleanup

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Message-ID: <CAD8Lp45namPGpKjcBMo8ivQjzBdsVNM4_sThSaaXxGH=NrSRVQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 13:54:44 -0600
From:   Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>
To:     Yurii Pavlovskyi <yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com>
Cc:     Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Chris Chiu <chiu@...lessm.com>,
        acpi4asus-user <acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix hwmon device cleanup

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:50 PM Yurii Pavlovskyi
<yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com> wrote:
>
> The driver does not clean up the hwmon device on exit or error. To
> reproduce the bug, repeat rmmod, insmod to verify that device number
> /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/hwmon/hwmon?? grows every time. Replace
> call for registering device with devm_* version that unregisters it
> automatically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yurii Pavlovskyi <yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>