Re: [PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: new M101 driver

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

Am 12.02.2007 19:47 schrieb Greg KH:

>>>>> +static void gigaset_device_release(struct device *dev)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +	//FIXME anything to do? cf. platform_device_release()
>>>>> +}

> The memory of the platform device itself needs to be freed here,
> otherwise, to do it earlier would cause race conditions and oopses.

I don't do it earlier. I do it later. My platform_device structure
is part of my driver's device state structure which is freed
explicitly later after the call to platform_device_unregister().
Is that bad?

> Look at how the other platform drivers do things.

They do things differently from each other as well as from mine.
block/floppy.c, for example, just has a call to complete() there.

Anyway, in the latest version of my driver, its platform_device
release function finally does something, too: it frees
dev->platform_data and pdev->resource just in case something
might have materialized there. I hope that's ok.

Regards,
Tilman

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