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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v6 6/9] media: tegra: Add Tegra210 Video input driver
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On 4/5/20 2:11 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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> 04.04.2020 04:25, Sowjanya Komatineni пишет:
> ...
>> +static int tegra_vi_tpg_channels_alloc(struct tegra_vi *vi)
>> +{
>> + struct tegra_vi_channel *chan, *tmp;
>> + unsigned int port_num;
>> + unsigned int nchannels = vi->soc->vi_max_channels;
>> + int ret = 0;
>> +
>> + for (port_num = 0; port_num < nchannels; port_num++) {
>> + /*
>> + * Do not use devm_kzalloc as memory is freed immediately
>> + * when device instance is unbound but application might still
>> + * be holding the device node open. Channel memory allocated
>> + * with kzalloc is freed during video device release callback.
>> + */
>> + chan = kzalloc(sizeof(*chan), GFP_KERNEL);
> Why anyone would want to unbind this driver in practice?
>
> I think it should make more sense to set suppress_bind_attrs=true.

From the previous feedback of patch series, we need to support
unbind/bind and looks like this driver should also support to built as a
module.

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