During module unloading, cdev_del() must be called to unmap cdev related
kobject references and other cleanups(such as inode->i_cdev being set to
NULL) which prevents the OOPS upon subsequent loading, usage and unloading
of modules(as seen in the mail thread
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
114533640609018&w=2).
Also, remove unneeded test of gpio_base.
Signed-off-by: Thayumanavar Sachithanantham <thayumk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
static void __exit cs5535_gpio_cleanup(void)
{
dev_t dev_id = MKDEV(major, 0);
+
+ cdev_del(&cs5535_gpio_cdev);
unregister_chrdev_region(dev_id, CS5535_GPIO_COUNT);
- if (gpio_base != 0)
- release_region(gpio_base, CS5535_GPIO_SIZE);
+ release_region(gpio_base, CS5535_GPIO_SIZE);
}
module_init(cs5535_gpio_init);