From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] release_resource() check for NULL resource
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:00:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051003130048.GE16717@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0510031552450.24263@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:54:31PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Russell King wrote:
> > On the other hand, release_region() is the counter-part of
> > request_region() and should be used to release resources
> > created by request_region().
>
> Right. To me, it makes sense for the release counter-part accept NULL if
> the allocation/initialization function can return it.
Right. Which it already can (with a complaint).
However, I think you missed my point though. release_resource() is
_not_ the counterpart of request_region(). It's the counter-part of
request_resource() which does not allocate any memory itself.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-03 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-02 17:03 Ben Dooks
2005-10-02 17:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-03 9:48 ` Ben Dooks
2005-10-03 9:59 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-10-03 10:04 ` Russell King
2005-10-03 12:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-10-03 12:49 ` Russell King
2005-10-03 12:54 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-10-03 13:00 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-10-03 13:12 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-10-03 13:42 ` Russell King
2005-10-03 13:42 ` Al Viro
2005-10-03 14:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-10-04 2:15 ` Randy.Dunlap
[not found] ` <5dc44ec70510031959w1f4adfcbh395535ade34a357d@mail.gmail.com>
2005-10-04 3:00 ` Diego de Estrada
2005-10-04 3:28 ` Randy.Dunlap
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2005-10-04 22:31 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-10-05 9:06 ` Russell King
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