Re: [RFC PATCH] use dev_set_name(,NULL) to prevent leaking

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 12:38:31 EST


Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 17:51, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> before device_register==>device_initialize is called, kobj->ref is still 0.
>>
>> will get warn from
>> if (!kobj->state_initialized)
>
> Initialize the device before you do anything with it. And call _put()
> any time to get rid of ressources, which might have been allocated
> before registering.

need to replace device_register with device_add and call device_initialize before device_set_name?

YH
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