On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:09:35PM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote: > This patch moves the initialization of the idr structure towards the end > of the module's init routine. This keeps the code compact and eliminates > the need of having to call ida_destroy() in case the function exits with > an exception. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gr...@microchip.com> > --- > drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c > b/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c > index db6f458..3864009 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c > @@ -505,7 +505,6 @@ static int __init mod_init(void) > > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&channel_list); > spin_lock_init(&ch_list_lock); > - ida_init(&minor_id); > > err = alloc_chrdev_region(&aim_devno, 0, 50, "cdev"); > if (err < 0) > @@ -521,6 +520,7 @@ static int __init mod_init(void) > err = most_register_aim(&cdev_aim); > if (err) > goto dest_class; > + ida_init(&minor_id);
But can't the minor_id be used before this call? most_register_aim() could call into a driver and have a cdev be wanted, right? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
