On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:49:57PM +0400, dmitry pervushin wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 07:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Please read up on how the lifetime rules work for devices, and what
> > needs to happen in the release function (hint, take a look at other
> > busses, like USB and PCI for examples of what needs to be done.)
> As far as I can see, pci_release_device deletes the pci_dev using kfree.
Yes.
> But here we have statically allocated spi_device structures --
> spi_device_add does not allocate spi_device, but uses caller-allocated
> one.
Not good, reference counted structures almost always should be
dynamically created. Please change this to also be true for SPI,
otherwise you will have a lot of nasty issues with devices that can be
removed at any point in time.
thanks,
greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
| |
 |