From: nick <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:31:04 -0500 > Greetings David, > I am wondering about the fix me in the file,au1xxx-ide.c for > the function,auide_ddma_init. While it's obvious to check the > return code of the function called below the FIXME comment,it > seems to be that there is more to this issue and therefore I > have a few questions. The first being can this device fail and > the system will function properly? The second question being don't > we need to remove the device if the allocation fails in the creation > of the data structures for it's use by the kernel as otherwise aren't > we leaking memory? I have no idea why the FIXME comment is there, I didn't write this driver nor have I ever made any changes to it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
