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From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] of/device: populate platform_device (of_device)
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:30:26AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
[...]
> C)
> struct of_device *alloc_function(int num_res)
> {
> 	struct device *ofdev;
> 	struct resource *res;
> 	ofdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*ofdev), GFP_KERNEL)
> 	if (!ofdev)
> 		return NULL;
> 	res = kzalloc((sizeof(*res) * num_res), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!res) {
> 		kfree(ofdev);  /* or goto an error unwind label */
> 		return NULL;
> 	}
> 	res = (struct resource *)&ofdev[1];

You mean ofdev->resource = res; ?

> That being said, I'm looking at refactoring to use
> platform_device_alloc() instead, which is effectively option C. (which
> I'd normally avoid, but it removes otherwise duplicate code from
> drivers/of).

Sounds great!

Thanks,

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