Re: [PATCH 2/2]suppress "Device nodeX does not have a release()function" warning

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:

> When calling unregister_node(), the function shows following message at
> device_release().
> 
> "Device 'node2' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must
> be fixed."
> 
> The reason is node's device struct does not have a release() function.
> 
> So the patch registers node_device_release() to the device's release()
> function for suppressing the warning message. Additionally, the patch adds
> memset() to initialize a node struct into register_node(). Because the node
> struct is part of node_devices[] array and it cannot be freed by
> node_device_release(). So if system reuses the node struct, it has a garbage.
> 

Nice catch on reuse of the statically allocated node_devices[] for node 
hotplug.

> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can register_node() be made static in drivers/base/node.c and its 
declaration removed from linux/node.h?

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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