On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:00:11PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote: > This looks like something is freeing stuff that it did not allocate in > the first place, which is IMHO bad. The call platform_device_alloc() > is setting platform_device_release() as the default release function > but platform_device_release() releases more than platform_device_alloc() > actually created. > > My view is that platform_device_alloc()'s default release shouldn't > be freeing the platform data, and that using platform_device_add_data() > or platform_device_add_resources() should change either the behvaiour > of platform_device_release() or it should change the pointer to a new > release function.
That doesn't work - how do those other functions (adding) know what data has also been added by other functions? That can't work reliably.
