On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:04:29PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.este...@freescale.com>
> 
> By using devm_request_irq() we don't need to call free_irq(), which simplifies
> the code a bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.este...@freescale.com>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/chipidea/core.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/chipidea/core.c b/drivers/usb/chipidea/core.c
> index 5cc1b02..d185c41 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/core.c
> @@ -502,8 +502,8 @@ static int ci_hdrc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>       }
>  
>       platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ci);
> -     ret = request_irq(ci->irq, ci_irq, IRQF_SHARED, ci->platdata->name,
> -                       ci);
> +     ret = devm_request_irq(dev, ci->irq, ci_irq, IRQF_SHARED,
> +                            ci->platdata->name, ci);
Mark Brown (now on Cc:) replied to one of my patches using
devm_request_irq:

        I'm always deeply suspicous of devm_request_irq() since you need
        to be *very* sure that the interrupt can't fire during cleanup
        and cause the handlers to try to use data structures that are
        already being freed.

and:

        devm_request_threaded_irq() is just generally a bit of a warning
        sign since it needs careful checking to tell if it's safe.

I don't know the details and didn't find any problems with it that a
plain request_irq doesn't have. But I wonder about the details and if
others are aware of the possible problems. Mark, maybe you can describe
in more detail the downsides you see?

Best regards
Uwe

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