On 2/4/2025 7:09 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > +#define MAX_NAME_SIZE 256 /* Max size of a faux_device name */ > + > +/* > + * Internal wrapper structure so we can hold the memory > + * for the driver and the name string of the faux device. > + */ > +struct faux_object { > + struct faux_device faux_dev; > + const struct faux_driver_ops *faux_ops; > + char name[]; Remove name since it is not used actually ? > +};+ */ > +void faux_device_destroy(struct faux_device *faux_dev) > +{ > + struct device *dev = &faux_dev->dev; > + > + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(faux_dev)) > + return; > + struct device *dev; //faux_device_create() does not return ERR_PTR(). if (!faux_dev) return; // avoid NULL pointer dereference in case of above error dev = &faux_dev->dev; > + device_del(dev); > + > + /* The final put_device() will clean up the driver we created for this device. */ > + put_device(dev); use device_unregister() instead of above 2 statements? > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(faux_device_destroy); > + > +int __init faux_bus_init(void) > +{ > + int ret; > + > + ret = device_register(&faux_bus_root); > + if (ret) { > + put_device(&faux_bus_root); put_device() for static device may trigger below warning: drivers/base/core.c:device_release(): WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst.\n", dev_name(dev)); > + return ret; > + } > + > + ret = bus_register(&faux_bus_type); > + if (ret) > + goto error_bus; > + > + ret = driver_register(&faux_driver); > + if (ret) > + goto error_driver; > + > + return ret; > + > +error_driver: > + bus_unregister(&faux_bus_type); > + > +error_bus: > + device_unregister(&faux_bus_root); > + return ret; > +}