linux-kernel - request_region/release

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Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:25:15 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	greg@...ah.com
Subject: request_region/release_resource

Is there any circumstance in which it is ok to call release_resource on 
the result of calling request(_mem)_region?  One issue is that 
release_resource doesn't free its argument, but then what if the call to 
release_resource is followed by a call to kfree?

Example:
drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c, in the function s3c2410wdt_probe

thanks,
julia
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