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DateSat, 1 Apr 2006 18:12:12 +0100
FromRussell King <>
SubjectRe: Handling devices that don't have a bus
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:46:26AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 03:45:50PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > I recently tried running the dummy_hcd driver for the first time in a 
> > > while, and it crashed when the gadget driver was unloaded.  It turns out 
> > > this was because the gadget's embedded struct device is registered without 
> > > a bus, which triggers an oops when the device's driver is unbound.  The 
> > > oops could be fixed by doing this:
> > 
> > Can you provide the oops itself please?
> 
> No, I don't have it any more.  But I can tell you exactly where the oops 
> occurred.  In __device_release_driver() (in drivers/base/dd.c), this line 
> you added:
> 
> 		if (dev->bus->remove)
> 
> crashed because dev->bus was NULL.  My patch changes the line to:
> 
> 		if (dev->bus && dev->bus->remove)
> 
> Any objection to that?

Nope.

> I think you have misunderstood my point.

Yes I did.  Oops.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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