Re: [PATCH] s390 (2/7): common i/o layer.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 09:03:01 EST


On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:24:48AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> +static void
> +chp_release(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Entries for chpids on the system bus.
> * This replaces /proc/chpids.
> @@ -863,8 +869,10 @@
> /* fill in status, etc. */
> chp->id = chpid;
> chp->state = status;
> - chp->dev.parent = &css_bus_device;
> -
> + chp->dev = (struct device) {
> + .parent = &css_bus_device,
> + .release = chp_release,
> + };

Eek. How is the dummy release function supposed to help
anything? you must free the object in ->release. Also
the assignment is horrible as hell.

Dito for the following patches.

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