On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 07:21:08PM -0700, Siddharth Gupta wrote:
When cdev_add is called after device_add has been called there is no way for the userspace to know about the addition of a cdev as cdev_add itself doesn't trigger a uevent notification, or for the kernel to know about the change to devt. This results in two problems:
- mknod is never called for the cdev and hence no cdev appears on devtmpfs.
- sysfs links to the new cdev are not established.
The cdev needs to be added and devt assigned before device_add() is called in order for the relevant sysfs and devtmpfs entries to be created and the uevent to be properly populated.
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Gupta sidgup@codeaurora.org Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson@linaro.org
drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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