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. So the patch implements node_device_release() CC: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com> CC: Jiang Liu <liu...@gmail.com> CC: Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> CC: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> CC: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com> CC: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Wen Congyang <we...@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com> --- drivers/base/node.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: linux-3.5-rc6/drivers/base/node.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.5-rc6.orig/drivers/base/node.c 2012-07-18 18:24:29.191121066 +0900 +++ linux-3.5-rc6/drivers/base/node.c 2012-07-18 18:25:47.111146983 +0900 @@ -252,6 +252,12 @@ static inline void hugetlb_register_node static inline void hugetlb_unregister_node(struct node *node) {} #endif +static void node_device_release(struct device *dev) +{ + struct node *node_dev = to_node(dev); + + memset(node_dev, 0, sizeof(struct node)); +} /* * register_node - Setup a sysfs device for a node. @@ -265,6 +271,7 @@ int register_node(struct node *node, int node->dev.id = num; node->dev.bus = &node_subsys; + node->dev.release = node_device_release; error = device_register(&node->dev); if (!error){ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev