From: Dmitry Torokhov on
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:18:38AM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> dell-laptop currently fails to clean up its platform device correctly.
> Make sure that it's unregistered.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg(a)redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> index 9d7e0be..b4c2190 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ static void __exit dell_exit(void)
> i8042_remove_filter(dell_laptop_i8042_filter);
> backlight_device_unregister(dell_backlight_device);
> dell_cleanup_rfkill();
> + if (platform_device) {
> + platform_device_del(platform_device);

That should be platform_device_unregister(), otherwise you are missing
final platform_device_put().

> + platform_driver_unregister(&platform_driver);
> + }
> }
>

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Dmitry
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