Error notification in device release

[Alan Stern]

Greg:

Now that the driver model includes completions for release notification as 
well as release methods, the conditions for printing the warning message 
in device_release can be relaxed a little...

Alan Stern


===== core.c 1.70 vs edited =====
--- 1.70/drivers/base/core.c	Fri Oct 10 16:44:38 2003
+++ edited/drivers/base/core.c	Thu Dec 18 12:19:25 2003
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 
 	if (dev->release)
 		dev->release(dev);
-	else {
+	else if (!c) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() function, "
 			"it is broken and must be fixed.\n",
 			dev->bus_id);

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