Re: [PATCH] release_pcibus_dev() crash

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:39 pm, John Rose wrote:
> The removal of the class device from sysfs is carried out explicitly by
> class_device_del(), which occurs prior to class_device_put().  The class
> device is gone from sysfs by the time class_device_put() is called.  As
> such, this release function should not carry out sysfs cleanups for the
> class device.
>
> I'm unsure how pci_remove_legacy_files() doesn't cause the same crash for
> those who implemented it, but I'll leave that alone for now.

Feel free to fix it too.  I haven't tested the removal case, so thanks for 
catching it.

Jesse
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