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SubjectRe: [RFC 06/18] regmap: Formalise use of non-bus context
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On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 13:34 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > First of all, it's just a generalization of the free_context already
> > existing in regmap_bus (and used by regmap-mmio). And in case of this
> > series it is being used to release extra resource added allocated for a
> > "busless" regmap_config. Briefly, I'm using devm_regmap_init() to
> > "attach" a custom regmap configuration to a device when it is being
> > created (which is then dev_get_regmap()-ed in the driver, as you saw in
> > the regulator patch) and its context is a pointer to kzallocated data.
> > free_context is used to release it when devm resource is being removed.
>
> > Does it make any sense?
>
> To be honest not really - the above sounds like you should've allocated
> the memory using devm_kzalloc() or just embedding the allocated data in
> the driver data for the parent. Internal things need to clean up after
> themselves but users should already have a larger context of some kind.

I've started with regmap_bus so the free_context did fit well like in
regmap-mmio, but you're right - with the current approach I should be
able to simply use devm_kzalloc(). I'll give it a try and if it works,
I'll drop this patch completely.

Paweł

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