From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
mochel@osdl.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch: linux-2.5.45/drivers/base/bus.c - new field to consolidate memory allocation in many drivers
Date: 03 Nov 2002 12:33:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1036326824.29646.2.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021102234537.A335@baldur.yggdrasil.com>
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 07:45, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Note that because struct net_device may need to persist after
> ->remove() returns, I had to make a net_device.destructor function
> (sharable with all similar network device drivers) rather than allow
> drivers/base/bus.c to do the kfree. If the same turns out to be true
> for Scsi_Host, gendisk, etc., then I will scrap the kfree part of my
> proposal.
It is certainly true for scsi devices, it will be true (once I get
around to it) for IDE devices
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-03 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-02 19:29 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-02 20:42 ` Greg KH
2002-11-03 7:45 ` Adam J. Richter
2002-11-03 12:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-11-02 23:55 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-03 22:40 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-04 6:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-04 7:50 Adam J. Richter
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