On 08/19/2016 12:23 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote: > The struct cdev embedded in struct media_devnode contains its own kobj. > Instead of trying to manage its lifetime separately from struct > media_devnode, make the cdev kobj a parent of the struct media_device.dev > kobj. > > The cdev will thus be released during unregistering the media_devnode, not > in media_devnode.dev kobj's release callback. > > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/media/media-devnode.c | 5 ++--- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c b/drivers/media/media-devnode.c > index aa8030b..69f84a7 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c > +++ b/drivers/media/media-devnode.c > @@ -63,9 +63,6 @@ static void media_devnode_release(struct device *cd) > > mutex_lock(&media_devnode_lock); > > - /* Delete the cdev on this minor as well */ > - cdev_del(&devnode->cdev); > - > /* Mark device node number as free */ > clear_bit(devnode->minor, media_devnode_nums); > > @@ -246,6 +243,7 @@ int __must_check media_devnode_register(struct media_devnode *devnode, > > /* Part 2: Initialize and register the character device */ > cdev_init(&devnode->cdev, &media_devnode_fops); > + devnode->cdev.kobj.parent = &devnode->dev.kobj; > devnode->cdev.owner = owner; > > ret = cdev_add(&devnode->cdev, MKDEV(MAJOR(media_dev_t), devnode->minor), 1); > @@ -291,6 +289,7 @@ void media_devnode_unregister(struct media_devnode *devnode) > clear_bit(MEDIA_FLAG_REGISTERED, &devnode->flags); > mutex_unlock(&media_devnode_lock); > device_unregister(&devnode->dev); > + cdev_del(&devnode->cdev); Are you sure about this order? Shouldn't cdev_del be called first? The register() calls cdev_add() before device_add(), so I would expect the reverse order here. This is also what cec-core.c does. Regards, Hans > } > > /* > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html