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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 23:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: mdean <mdean@best.com>
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Subject: Re: free() in device drivers
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yes


On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, mdean wrote:

> 
> If I do a malloc (p, M_DEVBUF, M_NOWAIT);
> 
> then find a problem in my attach routine, can I do a free(p, M_DEVBUF) to
> recover that memory?
> 
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