Re: [PATCH resend] Adding dummy release functions to avoidwarnings.

[Vitaliy Ivanov]

Andrew,

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:39:46 +0300 "Vitaliy Ivanov" <vitalivanov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Trivial fix for #9690.
> > Added simple release functions that doing nothing.
> > Not sure whether we can leave it as is or to rework using
> > platform_device helpers like platform_device_alloc.
> 
> Please see Documentation/kobject.txt - search for the text
> "mocked mercilessly" :)
> 
> > This approach is used in many drivers.
> > --
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c |    6 ++++++
> 
> Let's mock David too!

Damn. I knew that everything is not so easy here;) Got it. Tnx.

But in such case there are _again_ many drivers that do implement such
fake functions. Again is because when I tried to port some usb driver
there were issues with locking that was not correct but many drivers
worked exactly this incorrect way.

Anyway, tnx for clarifying this.

V.

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