netdev - Re: Resource usages in Linux drivers

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Message-Id: <20150423.204900.151579135360632583.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	romieu@...zoreil.com, sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com,
	baijiaju1990@....com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: Resource usages in Linux drivers

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:40:12 -0700

> Well, for one, we could have a device managed register_netdev()
> which cleans up resources in case of failures and calls
> free_netdev() automatically, but is that adding much value?

I don't think it's worth it at all.
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