Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] iio: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

From: Alexander Holler
Date: Mon Dec 10 2012 - 19:02:11 EST


Am 10.12.2012 23:36, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen:
Well, I've been exaggerating a bit, you can call it multiple times, but you

Thanks a lot for the explanation(s).

+error_free_drvdata:
+ platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);

Setting the platform data to NULL should not be necessary. Some
drivers do
this but it's kind of the result of cargo-cult-coding.

+ kfree(time_state);

Btw. I wouldn't call that cargo-cult-coding. It's more defensive programming as people might not be sure, if there is something around which still might access the platform data at that point. Ok, there would be a need for a mutex or similiar if that really could happen, but I wouldn't call such practices cargo-cult. ;)

Regards,

Alexander

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