Re: question about drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> I was under the impression that if you exit the probe function
>> with a negative value anything allocated with devm_* was freed
>> immediately, that is atleast how it's described in
>> Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
>> atleast that seems to be the intetion with the whole thing.
>
> That is true, but I wasn't sure taht this function was part of the probe
> function.  Its only reference is in:
>
> static struct pinctrl_ops at91_pctrl_ops = {
>         .get_groups_count       = at91_get_groups_count,
>         .get_group_name         = at91_get_group_name,
>         .get_group_pins         = at91_get_group_pins,
>         .pin_dbg_show           = at91_pin_dbg_show,
>         .dt_node_to_map         = at91_dt_node_to_map,
>         .dt_free_map            = at91_dt_free_map,
> };
>
> Working backwards, one possible call site is pinctrl_get, which is an
> exported function.  Is it safe to assume that it will always be called
> from within a probe function?

Aha sorry I got it all backwards :-(

Well, yes in that case it's devm_kfree() for sure.

Thanks!

Yours,
Linus Walleij