On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:12:10PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:55:56PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > Back in the days, sysfs seemed to have refcounting issues and subsystems > > needed a completion to be safe. This is not the case anymore, so I2C can > > get rid of this code. There is noone else besides I2C doing something > > like this currently (checked with the attached coccinelle script which > > checks if a release function exists and if it contains a completion). > > Have you validated this with DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE enabled? You saved me, thank you a lot for this pointer! Patch discarded. I assume other subsystems also moved away from 'struct device_type' for the release function as well; but this is just a guess for now and I'll call it a day for today.
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