Re: [RFC PATCH] use dev_set_name(,NULL) to prevent leaking

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 11:56:38 EST


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 17:51, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> before device_register==>device_initialize is called, kobj->ref is still 0.
>
> will get warn from
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âif (!kobj->state_initialized)

Initialize the device before you do anything with it. And call _put()
any time to get rid of ressources, which might have been allocated
before registering.

Thanks,
Kay
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