[PATCH] hwmon class driver registration with a device number
From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2011-10-06 18:32:50
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From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2011-10-06 18:32:50
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:40:11AM +0530, Himanshu Chauhan wrote:
Hi Greg,quoted
How do you later remove a device created with this new interface? As it is, I think the existing calls will fail, right?If I have not missed out anything from hwmon_device_unregister(), it shouldn't fail. Why did you point that out?
If you create a device with a call to device_create() with a dev_t set, it is usually cleaned up with a call to device_destroy(), but you are right, a simple call to device_unregister() will still work properly. So nevermind, sorry for the noise. What you do need to determine is if this is a device node you really want to be creating in this manner, as it is a new user/kernel API, right? greg k-h