[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3 drop malloc, clean up device model

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> [070629 18:36]:
>  Let's drop the "gcc hack" comment, it no longer applies.
 
dropped.

>  	if (!dev)
>  -		printk(BIOS_DEBUG, "%s: No constructor, going with empty dev",
>  -		       dev_id_string(devid));
>  +		return NULL;
> 
>  are you missing a spin_unlock here? If we are doing lock/unlock then
>  the failure case should probably be a goto Error in the kernel style,
>  so we don' t leave a dangling lock.

Oh yeah! Even though this case does usually mean we can not really
continue.

new patch ...
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>




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