On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 02:45:06PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This follows the discussion here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20230324123157.bbwvfq4gsxnlnfwb@houat/
> 
> This shows a couple of inconsistencies with regard to how device-managed
> resources are cleaned up. Basically, devm resources will only be cleaned up
> if the device is attached to a bus and bound to a driver. Failing any of
> these cases, a call to device_unregister will not end up in the devm
> resources being released.
> 
> We had to work around it in DRM to provide helpers to create a device for
> kunit tests, but the current discussion around creating similar, generic,
> helpers for kunit resumed interest in fixing this.
> 
> This can be tested using the command:
> ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --kunitconfig=drivers/base/test/
> 
> I added the fix David suggested back in that discussion which does fix
> the tests. The SoB is missing, since David didn't provide it back then.
> 
> Let me know what you think,
> Maxime
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

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