On 3/3/06, Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. But you have two devices, and acpi_button_add() will get called > once for each of them, which is exactly what we want. Your original > question was about this line in acpi_button_add(): > > 311 button = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_button), GFP_KERNEL); > > This kmalloc will happen for every button device, but the pointer is > attached to the acpi_device: > > acpi_driver_data(device) = button; > > and the corresponding kfree is in acpi_button_remove().
You are right. I see acpi_button_add_fs() also handles the multiple call case correctly. Thanks for helping explain this. jayakumar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
