[ofa-general] IB kernel modules and the kobject release() method

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Aug 6 12:58:40 PDT 2009


 > Are you sure that this indicates a shortcoming in the kobject
 > debugging code ? The most recent messages related to the message "does
 > not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed" I could
 > find on the LKML date from July 16, 2009
 > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/16/306 and
 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/16/391). As you can see Greg KH
 > acknowledges that if this message is logged that this indicates a
 > problem that should be fixed.

I'm not sure -- I just assume that the core module unloading code is
working OK, since it is so heavily tested.  If there were really a "must
be fixed" problem with module unloading then someone would surely have
hit more than a warning message.

 - R.



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