On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:55 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 09:43:40AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: > > Managed device links are deleted by device_del(). However it is possible to > > add a device link to a consumer before device_add(), and then discover an > > error prevents the device from being used. In that case normally references > > to the device would be dropped and the device would be deleted. However the > > device link holds a reference to the device, so the device link and device > > remain indefinitely. > > Why are you not just manually removing the link you just created? You > manually added it, you know something failed so you need to clean up, so > why not clean this up too? His changes are needed to do just that.
