On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Julia Lawall <julia.law...@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.
Thanks!
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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