linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware_class: fix memory leak

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Date:	Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:53:42 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware_class: fix memory leak - free allocated pages

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:54 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:40:21PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > fix memory leak introduced by 6e03a201bbe patch:
> >  firmware: speed up request_firmware()
> 
> Who originally wrote this patch, Kay? 

It's kind of a joint effort. I think it's probably mine by a fairly
narrow majority.

>  If so, Tomas, please put a "From:" line at the top of the patch with
> the author's name so we get it right when commiting it.

And don't make up Signed-off-by lines. Although you can have that one of
mine now you've got it (since you've actually tested it).

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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