Re: çå: [RFC PATCH] char: misc: Init misc->list in a safe way

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Zhongping Tan (èäå)
<Zhongping.Tan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi Arnd:
> Another way to describe this question,  misc_register shouldn't modify the member of the miscdevice especially when return error. Let the caller to ensure the list have been initialized,
> or when return error, please don't  initialize the list.

Why not? The caller should only initialize a couple of fields in the
structure (name, minor, fops, ...)
not never even look at the list entry, which is really internal to the
misc_register()/misc_unregister().

       Arnd