From: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
FBDEV list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: replace kfree with put_device
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:37:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK5ve-L54nmDX_HLPpfWQrTe=n11RFr5hyUFFcc-1otWPQde7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140210111349.GA21522@lee--X1>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
>> > As per the comments on device_register, we shouldn't call kfree()
>> > right after a device_register() failure. Instead call put_device(),
>> > which in turn will call bl_device_release resulting in a kfree to the
>> > full structure.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
>>
>> (+cc Bryan Wu, Lee Jones)
>>
>> Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
>
> Applied to temporary Backlight repo [1], thanks.
>
> [1] git://git.linaro.org/people/lee.jones/backlight.git
>
Great, I think we can put the Git URL into the MAINTAINS file for
Backlight subsystem after your finalize the git repo.
Thanks,
-Bryan
> --
> Lee Jones
> Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-10 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-07 8:43 [PATCH] backlight: replace kfree with put_device Levente Kurusa
2014-02-10 0:22 ` Jingoo Han
2014-02-10 11:13 ` Lee Jones
2014-02-10 17:37 ` Bryan Wu [this message]
2014-02-10 17:47 ` Lee Jones
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