> Actually, the original code worked fine, I got my doubts when some memory allocations are attempted without checking the desired success immediately. > and these changes will result in an Oops if the allocations fail. I'll explain why, > since it isn't obvious without some knowledge of the clean-up strategy used by comedi drivers: Thanks for your explanation. > …, and all the other comedi drivers follow the same strategy of leaving clean-up > to their comedi 'detach' handler. Are there other source code parts worth for further considerations? Regards, Markus -- 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