On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 13:30 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 02:23:23AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > + > > +static void tcm_loop_primary_release(struct device *dev) > > +{ > > + return; > > +} > > + > > +static struct device tcm_loop_primary = { > > + .init_name = "tcm_loop_0", > > + .release = tcm_loop_primary_release, > > +}; > > + > > No, you can not have statically allocated devices and dummy release > functions. > Last time I checked this is still what mainline drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c is doing for struct device pseudo_primary: static void pseudo_0_release(struct device *dev) { if (SCSI_DEBUG_OPT_NOISE & scsi_debug_opts) printk(KERN_INFO "scsi_debug: pseudo_0_release() called\n"); } static struct device pseudo_primary = { .init_name = "pseudo_0", .release = pseudo_0_release, }; so for these type of things in TCM_Loop I tend to follow what scsi_debug does, so I don't exactly see a issue here atm. Anybody else have comments..? Best, --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html