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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: The recent free_netdev() conversion...
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:53:45 -0700
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On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:59:09 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

>      err_out:
> 	kfree(dev);
 ...
> The "kfree" needs to be a free_netdev() too.

If the 'dev' hasn't been given to register_netdev() it
really doesn't need to be free_netdev().  It's just memory
until it has been given to the device layer.