From: Milan Broz This patch just removes an unnecessary warning: kobject: 'dm': does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. The kobject is embedded in mapped device struct, so code does not need to release memory explicitly here. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.32.orig/drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c +++ linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c @@ -80,12 +80,20 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dm_sysfs_ops = { }; /* + * The sysfs structure is embedded in md struct, nothing to do here + */ +static void dm_sysfs_release(struct kobject *kobj) +{ +} + +/* * dm kobject is embedded in mapped_device structure * no need to define release function here */ static struct kobj_type dm_ktype = { .sysfs_ops = &dm_sysfs_ops, .default_attrs = dm_attrs, + .release = dm_sysfs_release }; /*