Re: [PATCH 1/4] staging: uio: Simplify the lifetime logic of struct uio_device.

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:52:21AM -0800, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
> Embed struct device into struct uio_device, and use
> the refcounting and the release method of struct device
> to control struct uio_device.
> 
> This allows device_create and device_destroy to be replaced
> with the more standard device_register and device_unregister,
> and allows the struct device reference count to act as a
> reference count on struct idev as well.
> 
> Tested-by: Mandeep Sandhu <mandeep.sandhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Sandhu <mandeep.sandhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/uio/uio.c          | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  include/linux/uio_driver.h |  3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

The subject makes no sense, this has nothing to do with the staging tree
:(

Please fix up and resend this series.

thanks,

greg k-h
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