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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] warn when statically-allocated kobjects are used
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On Friday 17 March 2006 12:43, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:04:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > +warn:
> > > + printk("---- begin silly warning ----\n");
> > > + printk("This is a janitorial warning, not a kernel bug.\n");
> >
> > technically it IS a kernel bug ;)
>
> Until we fix up all of the struct bus and decl_subsys() usages in the
> kernel, this should show a lot of false positives...
>

Plus IIRC ARM creates bunch of platform devices which are statically
allocated. But because they never get unregistered everything works
just fine.

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Dmitry
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