Patchworkβ [02/42] driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device_shutdown.

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Submitter Eric W. Biederman
Date 2009-11-03 11:04:45
Message ID <m1y6mnc1iq.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
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Permalink /patch/57277/
State New
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Eric W. Biederman - 2009-11-03 11:04:45
device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not
clean up any kernel data structures.  Therefore don't put the kobjects
for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char.

This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while
we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
---
 drivers/base/core.c |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 6bee6af..3324d5a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1728,8 +1728,5 @@  void device_shutdown(void)
 			dev->driver->shutdown(dev);
 		}
 	}
-	kobject_put(sysfs_dev_char_kobj);
-	kobject_put(sysfs_dev_block_kobj);
-	kobject_put(dev_kobj);
 	async_synchronize_full();
 }