Re: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: free allocated pinctrl_map structure onlyonce and use kernel facilities for IMX_PMX_DUMP

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> a) as we allocate the pinctrl_map structure at imx_dt_node_to_map at  line 167, anyway
> if its an element, or a num_elements * (sizeof(type)) elements allocated to one single
> pointer must be freed only once.
>
> CASE. A)
>
> as new_map is not moved and allocated like,
>
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_ELEMS; i++) {
>        new_map[i] = kmalloc(numelems * size, GFP_KERNEL);
> }
>
> its freed as
>
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_ELEMS; i++) {
>        kfree(new_map[i]);
> }
>
> CASE. B)
> and its allocated like
>        new_map = kmalloc(numelems * size, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> it just needs kfree not as case A's.
>
> b) use KERN_DEBUG facility for the IMX_PMX_DUMP macro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-imx.c |   23 +++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Shawn/Dong: can you look at this patch too?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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