On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Russell King wrote: > However, I think you missed my point though. release_resource() is > _not_ the counterpart of request_region(). It's the counter-part of > request_resource() which does not allocate any memory itself. So what is the counter-part for request_region if it's not release_resource? As far as I can tell, release_region is marked as compatability cruft. But anyway, my point is that dealing with NULL in many release functions is beneficial for releasing a partially initialized state. Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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