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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Frank A. Uepping" <Frank.A.Uepping@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: struct device::release issue
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:14:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040327011436.GB14076@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403061247.24251.Frank.A.Uepping@t-online.de>

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:47:24PM +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote:
> Hi,
> if device_add fails (e.g. bus_add_device returns an error) then the release 
> method will be called for the device. Is this a bug or a feature?

Are you sure this will happen?  device_initialize() gets a reference
that is still present after device_add() fails, right?  So release()
will not get called.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-27  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-06 11:47 Frank A. Uepping
2004-03-27  1:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-27 14:26   ` Frank A. Uepping
2004-06-04 21:52     ` Greg KH

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