RE: [PATCH] ACPI / button: remove pointer to old lid_sysfs on unbind

[Zheng, Lv]

Hi, Benjamin

> From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Benjamin Tissoires
> Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / button: remove pointer to old lid_sysfs on unbind
> 
> When we removed the procfs dir on error or if the driver is
> unbound, the two variables acpi_lid_dir and acpi_button_dir
> were not reset. On the next rebind, those static variables
> were not null and we couldn't re-register the device again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/button.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/button.c b/drivers/acpi/button.c
> index 5c3b091..e413599 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/button.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/button.c
> @@ -188,9 +188,11 @@ done:
[Lv Zheng] 
I have a concern here for acpi_button_add_fs().
It looks like that this function doesn't support 2 lid devices.
So why do we need /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0 folder?

>  remove_dev_dir:
>  	remove_proc_entry(acpi_device_bid(device),
>  			  acpi_lid_dir);
> +	acpi_lid_dir = NULL;
>  	acpi_device_dir(device) = NULL;
>  remove_lid_dir:
>  	remove_proc_entry(ACPI_BUTTON_SUBCLASS_LID,
> acpi_button_dir);
[Lv Zheng] 
Should acpi_lid_dir = NULL be put here?

> +	acpi_button_dir = NULL;
>  remove_button_dir:
>  	remove_proc_entry(ACPI_BUTTON_CLASS, acpi_root_dir);
[Lv Zheng] 
Should acpi_button_dir = NULL be put here?

>  	goto done;
> @@ -207,8 +209,10 @@ static int acpi_button_remove_fs(struct
> acpi_device *device)
>  			  acpi_device_dir(device));
>  	remove_proc_entry(acpi_device_bid(device),
>  			  acpi_lid_dir);
> +	acpi_lid_dir = NULL;
>  	acpi_device_dir(device) = NULL;
>  	remove_proc_entry(ACPI_BUTTON_SUBCLASS_LID,
> acpi_button_dir);
[Lv Zheng] 
Should acpi_lid_dir = NULL be put here?

> +	acpi_button_dir = NULL;
>  	remove_proc_entry(ACPI_BUTTON_CLASS, acpi_root_dir);
[Lv Zheng] 
Should acpi_button_dir = NULL be put here?

Thanks and best regards
Lv

> 
>  	return 0;
> --
> 2.5.5
> 
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