RE: question on devm_kfree

2012-08-07 Thread Venu Byravarasu
> -Original Message- > From: Lars-Peter Clausen [mailto:l...@metafoo.de] > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:00 PM > To: Venu Byravarasu > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: question on devm_kfree > > On 08/08/2012 07:56 AM, Venu Byravarasu wr

Re: question on devm_kfree

2012-08-07 Thread Lars-Peter Clausen
On 08/08/2012 07:56 AM, Venu Byravarasu wrote: > As per comments related to devm_kzalloc, memory allocated using it is > freed automatically. > However there is a function called devm_kfree, comment section of which > says that it is used to free memory allocated using devm_kzalloc(). > If memory a

question on devm_kfree

2012-08-07 Thread Venu Byravarasu
As per comments related to devm_kzalloc, memory allocated using it is freed automatically. However there is a function called devm_kfree, comment section of which says that it is used to free memory allocated using devm_kzalloc(). If memory allocated by devm_kzalloc is freed automatically, what'