Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753134AbaBJRrm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:47:42 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:44810 "EHLO mail-wg0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752133AbaBJRri (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:47:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:47:30 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: Bryan Wu Cc: Jingoo Han , Andrew Morton , Levente Kurusa , LKML , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , FBDEV list Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: replace kfree with put_device Message-ID: <20140210174730.GE26997@lee--X1> References: <1391762601-4560-1-git-send-email-levex@linux.com> <003701cf25f6$3807c6d0$a8175470$%han@samsung.com> <20140210111349.GA21522@lee--X1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >> > 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 > >> > >> (+cc Bryan Wu, Lee Jones) > >> > >> Acked-by: Jingoo Han > > > > 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. Right, I plan do to this for MFD too. Before doing so I need to load my GPG Key with lots of signatures, at Linus' request. I'm aiming for the end of the month(ish). -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/