Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:37:07 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Releasing bus devices? |
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 08:21:36AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > I'm writing a bus driver, and I'm confused.
Yeah, writing a new bus is a major pain, I keep meaning to work on the api every year or so when I have to write a new one, but then I just suffer through it and never get around to it :(
> If I create a class and class devices, I can set a release method on > the class. But if I create a bus, there's no bus_type.dev_release. > Am I really supposed to manually set .release on each struct device > that I enumerate? If so, why?
No, you shouldn't have to do that, the "struct device_type" that is assigned to your device has a .release callback, that is what will be called. Make sure you set that for each device you create for your bus.
hope this helps,
greg k-h
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