> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday 7 June 2019 16:58
> To: Dragan Cvetic <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Michal Simek <[email protected]>; 
> [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; Derek Kiernan <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 04/12] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Add open, close and ioctl
> 
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:58:34AM +0000, Dragan Cvetic wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 12:37:17PM +0100, Dragan Cvetic wrote:
> > > > +static int xsdfec_dev_open(struct inode *iptr, struct file *fptr)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       return 0;
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +static int xsdfec_dev_release(struct inode *iptr, struct file *fptr)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       return 0;
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > empty open/close functions are never needed, just drop them.
> > >
> >
> > open() is needed to allocate file descriptor eg.
> > fd = open(dev_name, O_RDWR);
> 
> But you do nothing in those open/release callbacks.  Remove them and see
> that the code works just fine :)
> 

Accepted.
I will squash this commit with the first next which needs open/close, ioctal.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks
Dragan

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