Re: [PATCH 0/2] drivers: base: Add tests showing devm handling inconsistencies

[Maxime Ripard]

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 08:20:13PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 06:12:26PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 08:38:30PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This follows the discussion here:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20230324123157.bbwvfq4gsxnlnfwb@houat/
> > > 
> > > This shows a couple of inconsistencies with regard to how device-managed
> > > resources are cleaned up. Basically, devm resources will only be cleaned up
> > > if the device is attached to a bus and bound to a driver. Failing any of
> > > these cases, a call to device_unregister will not end up in the devm
> > > resources being released.
> > > 
> > > We had to work around it in DRM to provide helpers to create a device for
> > > kunit tests, but the current discussion around creating similar, generic,
> > > helpers for kunit resumed interest in fixing this.
> > > 
> > > This can be tested using the command:
> > > ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kunitconfig=drivers/base/test/
> > > 
> > > Let me know what you think,
> > > Maxime
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Is there any news on this?
> 
> Can you resend, last I saw the kernel test robot had a problem, which
> causes any patch series like that to be ignored by me.

Yeah, this was due to .kunitconfig being ignored by .gitignore, which
triggers a warning for the bot.

It's now fixed (at least in next), and I just resent the patches

Thanks!
Maxime

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