Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2020 11:39:48 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/19] char_dev: replace cdev_map with an xarray |
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:18:59AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > I looked at it, but it does get registered and shows up in sysfs. > > It does? Where does that happen? I see a bunch of kobject_init() > calls, but nothing that registers it in sysfs that I can see.
Hmm, true.
> > Note, this is not the kobject that shows up in /sys/dev/char/ as a > symlink, that comes from the driver core logic and is independent of the > cdev code. > > The kobject does handle the structure lifetime rules, but that should be > able to be replaced with a simple kref instead.
Yeah. I'll let you handle this stuff, as you obviously know the area better than I do.
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