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SubjectRe: question about drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-at91.c
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
> >> I was under the impression that if you exit the probe function
> >> with a negative value anything allocated with devm_* was freed
> >> immediately, that is atleast how it's described in
> >> Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
> >> atleast that seems to be the intetion with the whole thing.
> >
> > That is true, but I wasn't sure taht this function was part of the probe
> > function. Its only reference is in:
> >
> > static struct pinctrl_ops at91_pctrl_ops = {
> > .get_groups_count = at91_get_groups_count,
> > .get_group_name = at91_get_group_name,
> > .get_group_pins = at91_get_group_pins,
> > .pin_dbg_show = at91_pin_dbg_show,
> > .dt_node_to_map = at91_dt_node_to_map,
> > .dt_free_map = at91_dt_free_map,
> > };
> >
> > Working backwards, one possible call site is pinctrl_get, which is an
> > exported function. Is it safe to assume that it will always be called
> > from within a probe function?
>
> Aha sorry I got it all backwards :-(
>
> Well, yes in that case it's devm_kfree() for sure.

I've sent a patch, thanks.

julia


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