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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:22:20 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Frederick, Fabian" <Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] shm to sysfs rebuild.
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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