Subject: Re: The recent free_netdev() conversion...

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:53:45 -0700

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:59:09 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:

>      err_out:
> 	kfree(dev);
 ...
> The "kfree" needs to be a free_netdev() too.

If the 'dev' hasn't been given to register_netdev() it
really doesn't need to be free_netdev().  It's just memory
until it has been given to the device layer.