Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2014 07:35:47 +0800 (SGT) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dt/sparc: Introduce the use of the managed version of kzalloc |
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On Fri, 23 May 2014, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 May 2014, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Hi Himangi, > > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 01:04:30AM +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote: > > > This patch moves data allocated using kzalloc to managed data allocated > > > using devm_kzalloc and cleans now unnecessary kfrees in probe and remove > > > functions. Also the unnecessary labels are done away with. > > > > Please no more partial devm conversions. I am not interested in patches > > that change only 1 resource to be managed and leaving the rest as is. > > > > If you want to do devm conversion please do it if you convert all (or at > > least majority) of resource handling to managed resources. > > Sorry, I don't think we are clear on what is wanted. Himangi's patches > convert everything where a devm function is already available (to our > knowledge). Do you prefer that new devm functions be introduced? On the > one hand, that is perhaps useful from a safety point of view. On the > other hand, it could lead to a huge number of rarely used devm functions > that no one knows about and to a lot of code diversity. So I don't know > what is the good solution.
I guess that the concrete problem is of_ioremap? Since that is a pretty common function, I guess it could be reasonable to introduce a devm function for it as well. Or maybe one already exists and we overlooked it.
julia
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