Re: request_region/release_resource

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 04 2011 - 16:39:27 EST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:25:15PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Is there any circumstance in which it is ok to call release_resource on
> the result of calling request(_mem)_region? One issue is that
> release_resource doesn't free its argument, but then what if the call to
> release_resource is followed by a call to kfree?

Ick, not nice things I think :(

Care to fix it up?

thanks,

greg k-h
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