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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:23:55 +0000
Subject: Re: devm_kfree
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To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Is it reasonable to use devm_kfree in a probe function that fails or
> a remove function that succeeds?

If we need to do this I'd suggest that we should be fixing the manager
to not need it rather than having drivers do this.