Re: [PATCH 1/4] dmaengine: add a release for dma class devices anddependent infrastructure

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:46:46 -0700
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Resolves:
> WARNING: at drivers/base/core.c:122 device_release+0x4d/0x52()
> Device 'dma0chan0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
> 
> The dma_chan_dev object is introduced to gear-match sysfs kobject and
> dmaengine channel lifetimes.  When a channel is removed access to the
> sysfs entries return -ENODEV until the kobject can be released.
> 
> The bulk of the change is updates to existing code to handle the extra
> layer of indirection between a dma_chan and its struct device.
> 
> Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

Much better thanks.
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