linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] drivers/usb/host/ehci-atmel.c: use devm

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:48:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] drivers/usb/host/ehci-atmel.c: use devm_ functions

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> The various devm_ functions allocate memory that is released when a driver
> detaches.  This patch uses these functions for data that is allocated in
> the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the remove
> function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> ---
> Not compiled.

I have no objections to the patches in this series, but I haven't 
checked them in detail and I can't compile them either.

Alan Stern

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