On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:46:28 +0530, Amit Shah [off-list ref] wrote:

Ideally virtio_pci_release_dev() shouldn't be needed at all; all that
work can be moved to virtio_pci_remove().  virtio_pci_release_dev()
was added in 29f9f12e to curb a warning:

    virtio: add PCI device release() function
    
    Add a release() function for virtio_pci devices so as to avoid:
    
      Device 'virtio0' does not have a release() function, it is
      broken and must be fixed
    

So we could have an empty release() function that does nothing, and
all of the current functionality be moved to virtio_pci_remove(), as
it was earlier.  This should keep everyone happy.

Is that fine?

Greg K-H needs to be asked this question, I think.

Cheers,
Rusty.