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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:26:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C77AE8.8090008@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1212111407570.2091@hadrien>

Hello.

On 12/11/2012 04:08 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:

>>> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

>>> The function at91_dt_node_to_map is ultimately called by the function
>>> pinctrl_get, which is an exported function.  Since it is possible that this
>>> function is not called from within a probe function, for safety, the kfree
>>> is converted to a devm_kfree, to both free the data and remove it from the
>>> device in a failure situation.
>>
>>> A newline is added in the call to devm_kfree to avoid exceeding the 80
>>
>>    devm_kzalloc() you mean?

> Yes, sorry.  Should I send a new patch?

   Up to the maintainer I guess...

> thanks,
> julia

WBR, Sergei



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-11 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-11 10:58 [PATCH] drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c: convert kfree to devm_kfree Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 13:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-12-11 13:08   ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-11 18:26     ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2012-12-12 11:56 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-12-12 14:22   ` Julia Lawall
2012-12-12 17:01     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-12-14 15:46     ` Linus Walleij

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