On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:16:15AM +0530, Shubhrajyoti Datta wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:00:54AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> Dear Shawn Guo,
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:35:59PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >> > > I think the call to spi_master_put() triggers the call to
> >> > > spi_master_release(). If so, kfree() would not be needed at all, and 
> >> > > the
> >> > > documentation is wrong.
> >> >
> >> > Also those drivers calling kfree in probe.
> >>
> >> Looks like that to me ...
> >>
> > Doesn't seem to be far spread, fortunately. Only spi-davinci.c, spi-imx.c, 
> > and
> > spi-omap2-mcspi.c
> 
> I have a  omapsdp I could patch spi-omap2-mcspi.c  file thanks for the catch.
>
For that it would be good to determine if there is a memory leak when removing
the driver (I don't see where the memory allocated with spi_alloc_master is
removed).

Thanks,
Guenter

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