Re: [PATCH 08/10] regulator: max77686: Let core handle GPIO descriptor

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:24 PM Charles Keepax
<ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:43:48AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

> > @@ -255,8 +255,7 @@ static int max77686_of_parse_cb(struct device_node *np,
(...)
> > +             config->ena_gpiod = gpiod_get_from_of_node(np,
>
> As this is inside the of_parse_cb, it probably needs some thought
> on where the GPIO would need to be freed on which error paths, I
> am not sure it is immediately obvious to me but I suspect it will
> need to be freed in some cases.

I looked it over and came up with a patch making sure that if
the regulator_of_get_init_data() assigns config->ena_gpiod
it gets freed unless handled over to the regulator core.

Thanks for pointing this out, it was a tricky corner case!

Yours,
Linus Walleij