Re: [PATCH V2] dmaengine: qcom_hidma: cleanup sysfs entries during remove

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Sun Nov 13 2016 - 21:55:53 EST


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:42:46PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> The 4.8-rc8 kernel is printing duplicate file entry warnings while removing
> the HIDMA object. This is caused by stale sysfs entries remaining from the
> previous execution.
>
> _sysfs_warn_dup+0x5c/0x78
> sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x13c/0x1c0
> sysfs_create_file_ns+0x2c/0x40
> device_create_file+0x54/0xa0
> hidma_probe+0x7c8/0x808
>
> Create hidma_sysfs_init and hidma_sysfs_uninit functions and call them from
> the probe and remove path. To do proper clean up, adding the attrs object
> to the device data structure to keep it around until remove call is made.

This doesnt apply for me, I think due to other patches applied..

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~Vinod