[PATCH] plat_ram: call mtd_device_register only if partition data exists
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 06:49:02 EST 2011
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 02:26 +0400, Ilya Yanok wrote:
> Hi Artem,
>
> On 17.12.2011 19:31, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> >> mtd_device_parse_register() registers the device as a whole if no
> >> partition data is passed so there is no reason to call
> >> mtd_device_register() after that.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok at emcraft.com>
> >
> > This seems to be a bug-fix, right? What happens without this patch?
>
> Right.
>
> > We end up with 2 MTD equivalent MTD devices?
>
> Yes (only second one shown in /proc/mtd) and a warning for kobject:
>
> kobject (cf2c10e0): tried to init an initialized object, something is
> seriously wrong.
OK, then I'll ping David Woodhouse to merge this before 3.2 release.
Taken to l2-mtd-2.6.git so far, thanks!
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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