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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@google.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Dylan Reid <dgreid@google.com>,
	tiwai@suse.com, Jimmy Cheng-Yi Chiang <cychiang@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: max98357a: release GPIO when component removing
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 18:48:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190508094836.GL14916@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Px+wWQpvE5H=vM+0u_c3xpuZ8ivfgy0_xB84Ty_dvMAqBSVg@mail.gmail.com>


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On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 05:27:35PM +0800, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:

> probe().  What do we expect to do in component's probe()?

Only things that really, really need the card.

> As component's probe() is later than device's, I thought we tend to
> put resource allocation in component's probe() for reasons:
> - to speed up the booting *maybe* a little
> - to allocate resources when really need them

No, this is backwards - there's no point in running through the ASoC
level initialization only to find out we don't have some critical
resource.

> I am using devm_gpiod_put() instead of gpiod_put() so that I suppose
> devm_ should take care of the rest of cleanup.  Do you think this is
> still a mess?

The entire point of devm_ is that it does all the cleanup for you.

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-05-08  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-07  5:11 [PATCH] ASoC: max98357a: release GPIO when component removing Tzung-Bi Shih
2019-05-08  6:33 ` Mark Brown
2019-05-08  9:27   ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2019-05-08  9:48     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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