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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] parport: modify parport subsystem to use devicemodel
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:45:00 +0300
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 02:50:55PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> <snip>
> > > +	tmp->name = name;
> > 
> > I wonder who frees this name variable.  My concern is that it gets
> > freed before we are done using it or something.  (I have not looked at
> > the details).
> it will be done in free_port() the release callback of parport device.

That doesn't work.  Some of the callers pass a string literal.

regards,
dan carpenter