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From: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:37:29 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: replace kfree with put_device
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
>> > As per the comments on device_register, we shouldn't call kfree()
>> > right after a device_register() failure. Instead call put_device(),
>> > which in turn will call bl_device_release resulting in a kfree to the
>> > full structure.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
>>
>> (+cc Bryan Wu, Lee Jones)
>>
>> Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
>
> Applied to temporary Backlight repo [1], thanks.
>
> [1] git://git.linaro.org/people/lee.jones/backlight.git
>

Great, I think we can put the Git URL into the MAINTAINS file for
Backlight subsystem after your finalize the git repo.

Thanks,
-Bryan


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