> -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Warren [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:03 PM > To: Venu Byravarasu > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; linux- > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: phy: tegra: Using devm API for memory allocation > > On 12/17/2012 11:21 PM, Venu Byravarasu wrote: > > Using devm_kzalloc for allocating memory needed for PHY > > pointer and hence removing kfree calls to PHY pointer. > > Since the kfree() here used to be in tegra_usb_phy_close() rather than > any remove() function, does it actually make sense to use > devm_kzalloc(); would plain using kzalloc() instead, and not removing > the kfree() calls, be better? > Stephen, As you mentioned I can replace kmalloc with kzalloc in the original code and push an updated patch. However, I just wanted to understand if there exists any issue in using devm_kzalloc instead of kzalloc?
> When the PHY code gets converted to be an actual probed driver, then > perhaps using devm will make sense. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
