Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760495AbZD1O6M (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:58:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758719AbZD1O5p (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:57:45 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:54755 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758050AbZD1O5n (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:57:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:52:31 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Ingo Molnar , Kay Sievers , Linus Torvalds , Jesse Barnes , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] use dev_set_name(,NULL) to prevent leaking Message-ID: <20090428145231.GB8352@suse.de> References: <49E96731.1000501@kernel.org> <49EA27B9.3030004@kernel.org> <20090418192314.GA22107@suse.de> <1240086446.2411.9.camel@poy> <20090418203718.GD30144@elte.hu> <49EA4EB9.2030307@kernel.org> <49F6B1E6.7050008@kernel.org> <49F6B350.9080703@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49F6B350.9080703@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 529 Lines: 17 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:42:08AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > those about 1/3 dev_set_name() etc. > > wonder if there is better way to do that I don't see why this is needed, the name will be cleaned up when the device goes away, automatically, right? still confused, greg k-h -- 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/