On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 02:25:00PM -0400, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:40:11AM +0530, Himanshu Chauhan wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > > > How do you later remove a device created with this new interface? As it > > > is, I think the existing calls will fail, right? > > > > > If I have not missed out anything from hwmon_device_unregister(), it shouldn't > > fail. Why did you point that out? > > If you create a device with a call to device_create() with a dev_t set, > it is usually cleaned up with a call to device_destroy(), but you are > right, a simple call to device_unregister() will still work properly. > > So nevermind, sorry for the noise. > Not entirely noise. Since the new registration call is not exported in the patch, any code using it won't be compilable as module, which in turn means that hwmon_device_unregister() was never called. So while we know that it _should_ work, we also know that it was not tested. > What you do need to determine is if this is a device node you really > want to be creating in this manner, as it is a new user/kernel API, > right? > And why, and what for. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
