memory leak if calling request_irq too often

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>I found a memory leak, when called request_8xxirq again and again.
>This was already fixed for intel cpus, but the bug still exists in ppc
>code.
>
>You can easily see that the bug exists, if you see multiple directories
>in /proc/irq/ with the same name (drivers which already installed their
>irq-handler).

This have already been fixed in recent PPC kernels.

Thanks anyway,
Ben.


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