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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:13:49 +0000 From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> To: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com> Cc: 'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 'Levente Kurusa' <levex@...ux.com>, 'LKML' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 'Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard' <plagnioj@...osoft.com>, 'Tomi Valkeinen' <tomi.valkeinen@...com>, 'FBDEV list' <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, 'Bryan Wu' <cooloney@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: replace kfree with put_device > > As per the comments on device_register, we shouldn't call kfree() > > right after a device_register() failure. Instead call put_device(), > > which in turn will call bl_device_release resulting in a kfree to the > > full structure. > > > > Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@...ux.com> > > (+cc Bryan Wu, Lee Jones) > > Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com> Applied to temporary Backlight repo [1], thanks. [1] git://git.linaro.org/people/lee.jones/backlight.git -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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