On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 01:04:20PM +0100, Christian Gromm wrote: > This patch moves the core module to the /drivers/most directory > and makes all necessary changes in order to not break the build. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> I've applied the patches up to this one in the series, but I still have questions about the file you are trying to move here. It's not in this patch, but I'll just quote from the file drivers/staging/most/core.c directly: * Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Microchip Technology Germany II GmbH & Co. KG You've touched this file since 2015 :) #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt No need for this, You have drivers here, no need to use any pr_* calls, as you always have a device structure. Along with that, almost all of your pr_info() calls are really errors/warnigns, so use dev_err() or dev_warn() instead please. The one: pr_info("registered new core component %s\n", comp->name); Should at best be a dev_info() line, but really, you don't need to be loud if all goes well, right? pr_info("deregistering component %s\n", comp->name); Should be dev_dbg(). static void release_interface(struct device *dev) { pr_info("releasing interface dev %s...\n", dev_name(dev)); } static void release_channel(struct device *dev) { pr_info("releasing channel dev %s...\n", dev_name(dev)); } How did I miss this before? The driver core documentation used to have a line saying I was allowed to make fun of programmers who did this, but that had to be removed :( Anyway, this is totally wrong, first off, delete the debugging lines. Secondly how are you really releasing anything? You have to free the memory here. You can not have an "empty" release function, the driver core requires you to actually do something here. Same for release_most_sub() and anywhere else I missed in my review. That's a good start, fix that up and I'll be glad to look at the code again. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel