Re: Patch: linux-2.5.45/drivers/base/bus.c - new field to

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
03 Nov 2002 12:33:44 +0000


On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 07:45, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> Note that because struct net_device may need to persist after
> ->remove() returns, I had to make a net_device.destructor function
> (sharable with all similar network device drivers) rather than allow
> drivers/base/bus.c to do the kfree. If the same turns out to be true
> for Scsi_Host, gendisk, etc., then I will scrap the kfree part of my
> proposal.

It is certainly true for scsi devices, it will be true (once I get
around to it) for IDE devices

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