Re: [PATCH 1/4] acpi,memory-hotplug : add memory offline code to acpi_memory_device_remove()

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Fri Oct 19 2012 - 14:20:12 EST


> Hmm, IIRC, if the memory is recognized from kerenl before driver initialization,
> the memory device is not managed by the driver acpi_memhotplug.

Yup.


> I think we should also deal with REMOVAL_NORMAL here now. Otherwise it will cause
> some critical problem: we unbind the device from the driver but we still use
> it. If we eject it, we have no chance to offline and remove it. It is very dangerous.

??
If resource was not allocated a driver, a driver doesn't need to
deallocate it when
error path. I haven't caught your point.
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