On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 08:30:33AM +0100, Levente Kurusa wrote:
> No, if the call to put_device gives up the last reference to the
> device, then device_release gets called which in turn frees the memory
> associated with it. In this case, mce_device_release() will get
> called, which is just a simple kfree call.
Aah, that's that delayed freeing the driver core does, right. Now you
made me go and look into detail:
device_unregister
|->put_device
|->kobject_put
|->kref_put(&kobj->kref, kobject_release)
|->kref_sub(kref, 1, release)
|->release
|->kobject_release
|->kobject_cleanup
|->t->release
|->device_release
|->mce_device_release
Ok, I see it now. :-) :-)
Thanks, I'll take your patch as-is.
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Boris.
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