Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: pcf50633 - fix error handling during probe

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

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Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> The pcf50633 is very naive - it assumes that all driver core
> operations will succeed and will fail badly if one of them
> errors out. Implement proper error handling and make sure we
> release any and all resources that have been allocated prior
> to failure.
>
> Also avoid memory leak when using platform_device_add_data()
> which clones the supplied data structure for use by the device.
> The original copy, if allocated dynamically, needs to be freed
> by the caller; switch to using on-stack variable (the size of
> the structure in question is quite small) instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
Hi

Most of the issues addressed in this patch have already been fixed.
Please check the for-next branch in the mfd tree.

- - Lars
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