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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: device_destroy
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:39:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070209003934.GA30794@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702081548450.7686@pentafluge.infradead.org>

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:51:08PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> While porting over a few class_devices I discovered a problem with 
> device_destroy. It uses a dev_t which several classes don't use. 
> Should all classes require a dev_t or should we just pass in the device
> itself?

As you don't have a dev_t, then you have a handle to the 'struct device'
itself, right?  Then just call device_unregister(), that's all that
device_destroy() does after it finds the device in the list of devices
associated with the class.

Does this help?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 15:51 device_destroy James Simmons
2007-02-09  0:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-02-09 14:51   ` device_destroy James Simmons

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