Re: [PATCH] Convert dmasound_awacs to dynamic input_dev allocation

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:04, Ian Wienand wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:55:31AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Now you are leaking memory if something else fails... FOr example when
> > chip is not present.
> 
> Good point.  I guess the original comment is because the final
> dmasound_init() can fail but we'll still have all sorts of memory,
> irq's and io that aren't cleaned up.  So your previous patch probably
> introduces the least problems.
>

Have you tried it by any chance? I'd feel much better pushing it upstream
knowing that it was tested at least once...

-- 
Dmitry
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