From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] media: ir-kbd-i2c: convert to i2c_new_dummy_device() Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 13:17:49 -0300 Message-ID: <20190803131749.4d6517ab@coco.lan> References: <20190730175555.14098-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> <20190730175555.14098-2-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190730175555.14098-2-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Sean Young , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Em Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:55:54 +0200 Wolfram Sang escreveu: > Convert this driver to use the new i2c_new_dummy_device() call and bail > out if the dummy device cannot be registered to make failure more > visible to the user. > Please don't do that. At first glance, devm_* sounds a good idea, but we had enough issues using it on media system. I don't mind mind much if some SoC specific would use it, but doing it on generic drivers is a very bad idea. We have removed almost all devm_* calls from the media system. The problem with devm is that it the de-allocation routines aren't called during device unbind. They happen a way later, only when the device itself is physically removed, or the driver is removed. That caused lots of headaches to debug memory lifetime issues on media. > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang > --- > > Change since v1: > > * reworded commit message because there was no NULL ptr access > > drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c | 13 +++++-------- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c > index 876d7587a1da..f46717052efc 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c > +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c > @@ -885,9 +885,12 @@ static int ir_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id) > INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ir->work, ir_work); > > if (probe_tx) { > - ir->tx_c = i2c_new_dummy(client->adapter, 0x70); > - if (!ir->tx_c) { > + ir->tx_c = devm_i2c_new_dummy_device(&client->dev, > + client->adapter, 0x70); > + if (IS_ERR(ir->tx_c)) { > dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to setup tx i2c address"); > + err = PTR_ERR(ir->tx_c); > + goto err_out_free; > } else if (!zilog_init(ir)) { > ir->carrier = 38000; > ir->duty_cycle = 40; > @@ -904,9 +907,6 @@ static int ir_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id) > return 0; > > err_out_free: > - if (ir->tx_c) > - i2c_unregister_device(ir->tx_c); > - > /* Only frees rc if it were allocated internally */ > rc_free_device(rc); > return err; > @@ -919,9 +919,6 @@ static int ir_remove(struct i2c_client *client) > /* kill outstanding polls */ > cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ir->work); > > - if (ir->tx_c) > - i2c_unregister_device(ir->tx_c); > - > /* unregister device */ > rc_unregister_device(ir->rc); > Thanks, Mauro