[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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