Re: [patch 2.6.26-rc5] gpio: sysfs interface (updated)

From: David Brownell
Date: Tue Jul 22 2008 - 20:01:49 EST


On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > device_create_drvdata() has magically vanished from today's linux-next,
> > so this code doesn't compile any more.
> >
> > This:
> >
> > @@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ int gpio_export(unsigned gpio, bool dire
> >       if (status == 0) {
> >               struct device   *dev;
> >  
> > -             dev = device_create_drvdata(&gpio_class, desc->chip->dev, 0,
> > -                             desc, "gpio%d", gpio);
> > +             dev = device_create(&gpio_class, desc->chip->dev, 0, desc,
> > +                                     "gpio%d", gpio);
>
> Should be NULL instead of 0 there, otherwise sparse will complain.

The zero is a dev_t ... ?? (As Andrew just noted too.)

"desc" might need to be NULL, but it's a valid pointer
(for driver_data). I think this was a mental off-by-one...





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