On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 18:36, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 17:51, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> before device_register==>device_initialize is called, kobj->ref is still 0. >>> >>> will get warn from >>> if (!kobj->state_initialized) >> >> Initialize the device before you do anything with it. And call _put() >> any time to get rid of ressources, which might have been allocated >> before registering. > > need to replace device_register with device_add and call device_initialize before device_set_name? Sounds right in the case you want to jump out between set_name() and _register() -- means you have an uninitialized device, where you can not call put_device(). Otherwise after a failing _register() it should work fine. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
