Re: [PATCH] iio: add APDS9300 ambilent light sensor driver

[Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>]

On 07/15/2013 04:54 PM, Oleksandr Kravchenko wrote:
> I can't to find devm_iio_device_alloc() in my kernel v3.11-rc1
> 

It doesn't exist yet, but it should be too hard to implement one.

- Lars

> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> wrote:
>> On 07/15/2013 02:27 PM, Oleksandr Kravchenko wrote:
>>> Thank you for review! But I don't completely understand one of your comment:
>>>
>>>>> +static int als_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>>> [...]
>>>>> +     if (client->irq) {
>>>>> +             ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(&client->dev, client->irq,
>>>>> +                             NULL, als_interrupt_handler,
>>>>> +                             IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING | IRQF_ONESHOT,
>>>>> +                             ALS_IRQ_NAME, indio_dev);
>>>>
>>>> This is a bit racy, you access memory in the irq handler that is freed
>>>> before the irq is freed.
>>>
>>> Do you mean than that indio_dev may be used in interrupt handler after
>>> iio_device_free(indio_dev) called in als_remove() function?
>>>
>>> If so, can I use disable_irq() in als_remove() before iio_device_free()
>>> to avoid this problem?
>>>
>>
>> Just add a devm_iio_device_alloc() and use that, instead of trying to bodch
>> around the issue.
>>
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