From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] gpio: exar: use devm action for freeing the IDA and drop remove()
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:12:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMRc=MekeB=ik_+J7e7U9wicdaHG7PPdMDtP=X8hBQRRrrOE7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VeUuZ1Qock+n_9ee4ESD4-kfYyy1AwPA8PJXmWaYNdsvA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:02 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 4:22 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> >
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> >
> > We can simplify the error path in probe() and drop remove() entirely if
> > we provide a devm action for freeing the device ID.
>
> Always the same question to IDR/IDA users:
> does it guarantee that when the driver is gone the IDR/IDA resources are freed?
>
> (It's not directly related to this patch, though)
>
Yes because there's exactly one ida_free(id) per id = ida_alloc() here.
Bartosz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-26 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-26 14:18 [PATCH 0/7] gpio: exar: refactor the driver Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:18 ` [PATCH 1/7] gpio: exar: add a newline after the copyright notice Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:18 ` [PATCH 2/7] gpio: exar: include idr.h Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:18 ` [PATCH 3/7] gpio: exar: switch to a simpler IDA interface Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:18 ` [PATCH 4/7] gpio: exar: use a helper variable for &pdev->dev Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:18 ` [RFT PATCH 5/7] gpio: exar: unduplicate address and offset computation Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:52 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-11-02 10:16 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-02 10:58 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-11-02 11:27 ` David Laight
2020-10-26 14:18 ` [RFT PATCH 6/7] gpio: exar: switch to using regmap Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:59 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-11-04 16:32 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 14:18 ` [PATCH 7/7] gpio: exar: use devm action for freeing the IDA and drop remove() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-10-26 15:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-26 15:12 ` Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
2020-10-26 14:46 ` [PATCH 0/7] gpio: exar: refactor the driver Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-26 15:05 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-27 15:12 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-11-04 13:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-11-04 14:52 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-11-04 16:23 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
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