Re: [PATCH] regulator: fixed: Use devm_regulator_register

From: Mark Brown
Date: Sun Jan 26 2014 - 19:03:11 EST


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 01:36:53PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:35:54PM +0530, Manish Badarkhe wrote:

> > Use "devm_regulator_register" instead of "regulator_register"
> > which simplifies the code.

> ... and also breaks the driver: now you are freeing desc->name and
> desc->supply_name while regulator structures are still alive and can be
> referenced from its sysfs attributes, etc.

Yup, they need to be converted to managed allocations too if the
regulator_register() is going to be converted (see previous discussions
on similar patches). It would be good to do so.

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