From ebiederm@xmission.com Fri Nov 6 14:49:56 2009 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:28 -0800 Subject: Driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device_shutdown. To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Message-ID: device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not clean up any kernel data structures. Therefore don't put the kobjects for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char. This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices. Acked-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1730,8 +1730,5 @@ void device_shutdown(void) dev->driver->shutdown(dev); } } - kobject_put(sysfs_dev_char_kobj); - kobject_put(sysfs_dev_block_kobj); - kobject_put(dev_kobj); async_synchronize_full(); }