Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753590AbYKROGz (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:06:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752977AbYKROGi (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:06:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134]:56911 "EHLO mgw-mx09.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752917AbYKROGh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:06:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] physmap: Fix leak of memory returned by parse_mtd_partitions From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org To: David Woodhouse Cc: Mike Frysinger , Atsushi Nemoto , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1227016647.27728.398.camel@macbook.infradead.org> References: <20081112.235733.01917391.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <20081113.005534.56563769.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <8bd0f97a0811120808p5858d5adleeef43b1d374bee1@mail.gmail.com> <1227016647.27728.398.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:04:38 +0200 Message-Id: <1227017078.16925.123.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Nov 2008 14:06:26.0087 (UTC) FILETIME=[D8582370:01C94986] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 13:57 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > I suspect it might be better to take the simple bug-fix approach for > now, given that we are planning a revamp of the MTD core API anyway -- > we can redo partitions properly at the point, so they aren't just an > evil hack. Off topic: is this going to really happen? Are you have real plans to do this? Also, you also mentioned that you have sysfs for MTD, are we going to see them in mtd-2.6.git any time soon? -- Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) -- 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/