request_region/release_resource

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Thu Feb 03 2011 - 15:25:29 EST


Is there any circumstance in which it is ok to call release_resource on
the result of calling request(_mem)_region? One issue is that
release_resource doesn't free its argument, but then what if the call to
release_resource is followed by a call to kfree?

Example:
drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c, in the function s3c2410wdt_probe

thanks,
julia
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