Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] RTC subsystem, test device/driver

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Monday 26 December 2005 13:59, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> +struct platform_device test_dev_zero = {
> +	.name	= "rtc-test",
> +	.id	= 0,
> +	.dev.release = test_release,
> +};
> +
> +struct platform_device test_dev_one = {
> +	.name	= "rtc-test",
> +	.id	= 1,
> +	.dev.release = test_release,
> +};
> +

You should never ever statically allicate devices that can be unregistered.
Guess what will happen if one does this:

	rmmod rtc_test  < /sys/class/rtc/rtcX/date

where rctX is class device created by rtc-test0 or rtc-test1.

-- 
Dmitry
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