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Geoffrey wrote:

> Danny Cox wrote:
>
>>     Well, I've done a little kernel hacking, and I can spot iffy code
>> sometimes.  This was iffy code.  Upon initialization, it would be
>> kmalloc()-ing various members of it's structure, but upon failure, it
>> simply bailed.  It never kfree()-ed what it had grabbed!  Memory leaks
>> for sure!  I continued googling around, and stumbled across an entry for
>> a patch or two to the driver.  The patches were done by Greg KH, Mister
>> USB himself!  Hmm!  I'm running Fedora Core 3, so I looked
>> in /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/drivers/usb/misc, and found,
>> would you believe it? "legousbtower.ko"!
>
>
> Comes with SuSE 9.2 as well. :)
>

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