On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > What other email? ... neither you nor Kay replied after either Boaz's > > patch or the corrected one were posted. > > See my other email a minute ago in response to this thread. Can we start again? You've been replying to a patch to do a put_device() in device_register() which everyone agrees looks wrong. The proposal to fix all of this is to free the kobject name and NULL it out in device_add(). That fixes all the places you and kay broke when you added the variable length name stuff. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html