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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Frederick, Fabian" <Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be>
Cc: "'Patrick Mochel'" <mochel@osdl.org>,
	"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shm to sysfs rebuild.
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:22:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030815002220.GC4776@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D9B4591FDBACD411B01E00508BB33C1B014053B7@mesadm.epl.prov-liege.be>

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:03:43PM +0200, Frederick, Fabian wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> 	Here's the patch attached (patches are troublesome when inlined from
> here).
> btw all your advices were applied.

Don't you really want to clean up the shm information when the device is
closed (or however shm's are destroyed), and then later, when the
kobject is released, free up the memory assigned to it?

The patch really wasn't inlined, otherwise I would point this out in the
patch :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-15  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-14 13:03 [PATCH] shm to sysfs rebuild Frederick, Fabian
2003-08-15  0:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-10 13:24 Frederick, Fabian
2003-08-10 17:23 ` Patrick Mochel

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