Re: [PATCH] regulator: Get rid of lockdep warning

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Mar 12 2010 - 12:22:05 EST


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:16:36PM +0200, Ameya Palande wrote:

> @@ -1045,6 +1045,7 @@ static struct regulator *create_regulator(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
> regulator->dev_attr.attr.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> regulator->dev_attr.attr.mode = 0444;
> regulator->dev_attr.show = device_requested_uA_show;
> + sysfs_attr_init(&regulator->dev_attr.attr);
> err = device_create_file(dev, &regulator->dev_attr);
> if (err < 0) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: could not add regulator_dev"

Without having looked at what sysfs_attr_init() is actually doing it
looks odd to be calling an init() function after having initialised
several members of the structure - I'd expect to see the call happen
before we start writing stuff in?
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