Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:58:15 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: Move driver_data back to struct device |
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:53:22AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Having to allocate memory as part of dev_set_drvdata() is a problem > because that memory may never get freed if the device itself is not > created. So move driver_data back to struct device. > > This is a partial revert of commit b4028437. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > --- > Greg, we discussed that back in January (in a thread named "Freeing of > dev->p") but I did not hear back from you and I can't see this fix in > your driver-core tree.
Thanks for doing this, I'll queue this up after -rc1 is out. I still have that thread in my TODO list, unfortunatly, higher-priority items keep bumping it down :(
greg k-h
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