Re: [PATCH 1/8] arch/mips/txx9: introduce missing kfree, iounmap

[Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:03:42 +0200 (CEST), Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> wrote:
> > > +out_pdev:
> > > +	platform_device_put(pdev);
> > > +out_gpio:
> > > +	gpio_remove(&iocled->chip);
> > 
> > I just noticed that the prototype of gpio_remove has __must_check
> > I don't think there is anything to check here; since the thing is not 
> > fully initialized here, it is unlikely to be busy.  Should there be (void) 
> > in front of it?
> 
> The void casting does not silence the warning.  How about this?
> 
> 	if (gpiochip_remove(&iocled->chip))
> 		return;
> 
> In general, memory leak would be less serious than crash or data
> corruption ;)

OK, I will send an updated patch shortly.

julia