linux-kernel - Re: [char-misc-next V2] mei: nfc: clean nfc internal struct on host exit

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Message-ID: <20141103235630.GA31313@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2014 15:56:30 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next V2] mei: nfc: clean nfc internal struct on host
 exit

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:34:50AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> NFC internal structure cleaning was dropped by commit
> 
> commit 5ad1550a15cd5b75ed8aa3009e162822f720375e
> Author: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
> Date:   Sun Jan 26 11:53:06 2014 +0200
> 
>     mei: Remove all bus devices from the mei_dev list when stopping the MEI
> 
> We allocate nfc_dev and free it across the reset
> so we do not keep it in dirty state
> 
> Stable: 3.15+

Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this
properly.

Please resend, after really verifying this does need to go to the stable
trees...

thanks,

greg k-h
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