From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Mark empty release functions as broken Come on people, this is just wrong... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/video/epson1355fb.c | 1 + drivers/video/vfb.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/video/epson1355fb.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/video/epson1355fb.c @@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ static void clearfb16(struct fb_info *in static void epson1355fb_platform_release(struct device *device) { + dev_err(device, "This driver is broken, please bug the authors so they will fix it.\n"); } static int epson1355fb_remove(struct platform_device *dev) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/video/vfb.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/video/vfb.c @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ static int __init vfb_setup(char *option static void vfb_platform_release(struct device *device) { // This is called when the reference count goes to zero. + dev_err(device, "This driver is broken, please bug the authors so they will fix it.\n"); } static int __init vfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)