When calling unregister_node(), the function shows following message at
device_release().

Device 'node2' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be
fixed.

So the patch implements node_device_release()

CC: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
CC: Jiang Liu <liu...@gmail.com>
CC: Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
CC: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Wen Congyang <we...@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com>

---
 drivers/base/node.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Index: linux-3.5-rc4/drivers/base/node.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.5-rc4.orig/drivers/base/node.c      2012-07-03 14:21:44.882432167 
+0900
+++ linux-3.5-rc4/drivers/base/node.c   2012-07-03 14:22:23.296951921 +0900
@@ -252,6 +252,12 @@ static inline void hugetlb_register_node
 static inline void hugetlb_unregister_node(struct node *node) {}
 #endif

+static void node_device_release(struct device *dev)
+{
+       struct node *node_dev = to_node(dev);
+
+       memset(node_dev, 0, sizeof(struct node));
+}

 /*
  * register_node - Setup a sysfs device for a node.
@@ -265,6 +271,7 @@ int register_node(struct node *node, int

        node->dev.id = num;
        node->dev.bus = &node_subsys;
+       node->dev.release = node_device_release;
        error = device_register(&node->dev);

        if (!error){

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