On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:54:03AM +0900, Jingoo Han wrote: > On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 1:44 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:30:43PM +0900, Jingoo Han wrote: > > > Use devm_gpio_request_one() to make cleanup paths simpler. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1....@samsung.com> > > > > This patch also addresses the missing gpio_free in the probe error path > > (if the call to misc_register() fails). > > When devm_gpio_request_one() is used, there is no need to call > devm_gpio_free(). > > It is because, these resource managed functions such as > devm_gpio_request_one() allow the driver core to automatically > clean up any allocation, when probe function fails. > I am well aware of this.
I said this patch _addresses_ a problem, not that it creates one. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
