Re: [patch 3/17] s390: move s390_root_dev_* out of the cio layer.

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:54:43PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 17:51 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:23:45PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > > +extern struct device *s390_root_dev_register(const char *);
> > > +extern void s390_root_dev_unregister(struct device *);
> > >...
> > 
> > If you do _really_ need these wrappers, simply make them
> > "static inline"'s in the header file.
> 
> We can't. The point here is that we need an external release function
> that is still available after the module has been unloaded that uses
> these wrappers.

release is find and understandable.  But the unregister one is just
pretty foolish :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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