Re: Freeing a dynamic struct cdev

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:26:15 -0400 James C. Georgas wrote:

> If I allocate a struct cdev using cdev_alloc(), what function do I call
> to free it when I'm done with it?

Should be cdev_put(), which calls kobject_put(), which implements
ref counting (using krefs), so that when the last reference is
going away, the object will be removed.

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~Randy
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