| To: | Maillist netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | The recent free_netdev() conversion... |
| From: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:59:09 -0400 |
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Note that a lot of error paths were not caught. In the typical driver
you have:->probe() dev = alloc_etherdev()
blah_probe()
if blah_probe() fails
goto err_out
register_netdev()
return 0; err_out:
kfree(dev);
The "kfree" needs to be a free_netdev() too. Jeff |
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