add patch

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/driver/empty_release_functions_are_broken.patch b/driver/empty_release_functions_are_broken.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f22920e529fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/driver/empty_release_functions_are_broken.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+Subject: Mark empty release functions as broken
+
+Come on people, this is just wrong...
+
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+
+---
+ drivers/video/epson1355fb.c |    1 +
+ drivers/video/vfb.c         |    1 +
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/video/epson1355fb.c
++++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/video/epson1355fb.c
+@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ static void clearfb16(struct fb_info *in
+ 
+ static void epson1355fb_platform_release(struct device *device)
+ {
++	dev_err(device, "This driver is broken, please bug the authors so they will fix it.\n");
+ }
+ 
+ static int epson1355fb_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
+--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/video/vfb.c
++++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/video/vfb.c
+@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ static int __init vfb_setup(char *option
+ static void vfb_platform_release(struct device *device)
+ {
+ 	// This is called when the reference count goes to zero.
++	dev_err(device, "This driver is broken, please bug the authors so they will fix it.\n");
+ }
+ 
+ static int __init vfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)