On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Ian Abbott <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-07-01 14:36, Devendra Naga wrote:
>>
>> if alloc_private fail, we wont' release the I/O region,
>> which was request_region 'ed.
>>
>> release the allocated I/O region if alloc_private fails.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <[email protected]>
>> ---
>
>
> No.  The I/O region will be deallocated in fl512_detach() because
> dev->iobase has been set non-zero.  fl512_detach() will be called by the
> comedi core if fl512_attach() returns an error.  This is an unusual aspect
> of the comedi drivers.
>
Oh, i didn't see the comedi core, i went and saw that its not freed
up, so actaully driver unload wont' be called if driver attach , probe
fail. so i started sending this patch.

Sorry.
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Devendra.
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