From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request_region/release_resource
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:07:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203190741.GT20606@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1102031731380.14058@pc-004.diku.dk>
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Is there any circumstance in which it is ok to call release_resource on
> the result of calling request(_mem)_region? One issue is that
> release_resource doesn't free its argument, but then what if the call to
> release_resource is followed by a call to kfree?
>
> Example:
> drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c, in the function s3c2410wdt_probe
>
Best to ask on lkml. Greg is the maintainer for driver core so CC him.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 16:33 request_region/release_resource Julia Lawall
2011-02-03 19:07 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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2011-02-03 20:25 request_region/release_resource Julia Lawall
2011-02-04 21:38 ` request_region/release_resource Greg KH
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