On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:57:53PM +0100, Christian Gromm wrote: > This patch moves the struct device of the interface structure to its > private section, because only the core should access it directly. For > other entities an API is provided. This feels "wrong". Shouldn't the struct device in this structure be the thing that is handling the reference counting and sysfs integration for this structure? To put it as a "pointer" in a private section of the structure feels like it is now backwards. What is this helping with? Who was messing with the device structure here that needed to not mess with it? It's good that you are now releasing the memory for the device structure properly, but this still feels really wrong. What is keeping the lifetime of this structure now that the device is removed from it? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel