Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:42:55 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [patch] printk subsystems |
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:03:47PM -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > > Yep, that is the point, and it is small enough (5 ulongs) that > it can be embedded anywhere without being of high impact and > having to allocate it [first example that comes to mind is > for sending a device connection message; you can embed a short > message in the device structure and query that for delivery; > no buffer, no nothing, the data straight from the source].
And the device is removed from the system, the memory for that device is freed, and then a user comes along and trys to read that message.
oops... :)
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