Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:17:05AM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
 
> Here's a trivial patch for this one.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> asus-laptop: Sync with changes to led class
> 
> Driver was broken by commit f8a7c6fe14f556ca8eeddce258cb21392d0c3a2f
> 	leds: Convert from struct class_device to struct device
> 
> 	Convert the LEDs class from struct class_device to struct device
> 	since class_device is scheduled for removal.
> 
> Use (struct led_classdev).dev instead of (struct led_classdev).class_dev

It doesn't fix the real bug in there - if you look carefully at the code,
you'll see that we don't get to these checks if allocation fails halfway
through (and we leak in that case) *and* these checks are not needed at
all if failure happens elsewhere.
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