From: Alasdair G Kergon Revert commit d2bb7df8cac647b92f51fb84ae735771e7adbfa7 at Greg's request. Author: Milan Broz Date: Thu Dec 10 23:51:53 2009 +0000 dm: sysfs add empty release function to avoid debug warning 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: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.33-rc8/drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.33-rc8.orig/drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c +++ linux-2.6.33-rc8/drivers/md/dm-sysfs.c @@ -80,20 +80,12 @@ 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 }; /*