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From: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] cs8900 driver: cleanup cs8900_initialize()
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:12:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100121211245.GA16182@darwin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B58C2D5.7090206@gmail.com>

El Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:10:45PM -0800 Ben Warren ha dit:

> Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> cs8900_initialize(): remove unecessary calls to free(), fix memory leak and
>> report errors in the return value
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/cs8900.c |    7 +++----
>>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/cs8900.c b/drivers/net/cs8900.c
>> index df36004..7895048 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/cs8900.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/cs8900.c
>> @@ -308,15 +308,14 @@ int cs8900_initialize(u8 dev_num, int base_addr)
>>   	dev = malloc(sizeof(*dev));
>>  	if (!dev) {
>> -		free(dev);
>> -		return 0;
>> +		return -1;
>>   
> 'return 0' is actually correct.  It refers to the number of devices that  
> were initialized.

ok, i was in doubt and had a look at another driver, which returns a
negative value and followed the bad example :(

> Removing the 'free' calls is good, though.

i'll send out a patch without the return value 'fix' then

best regards

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-21 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21 20:56 [U-Boot] [PATCH] cs8900 driver: cleanup cs8900_initialize() Matthias Kaehlcke
2010-01-21 21:10 ` Ben Warren
2010-01-21 21:12   ` Matthias Kaehlcke [this message]
2010-01-21 22:02     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-01-21 22:01       ` Matthias Kaehlcke

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