Danilo Reinhardt (Danilo.Reinhardt@de.bosch.com) wrote: > Hi, > > does i need to call kfree to free memory allocated with kmalloc. I ask > because, at the firewire subsystem (hosts.c) there is a call to kmalloc > inside hpsb_alloc_host but i did not fount a everywhere? > > Bye Dan Like in C program, when you have alocated memory with (k)malloc, when you want to release it, you (k)freed it ;-) It is the same here. Perhaps in the code you read, the memory allocated is used again. If I say mistake, please correct me... I am here to learn. -- Amicalement Christophe * GNU/Linux & UNIX developer and network administrator * Membre RotomaLUG (http://www.rotomalug.org) * Registered User #271267 * Email: c.lucas@ifrance.com * Web Site: http://odie.mcom.fr/~clucas/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
