Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: sgtl5000: Use devm_ functions

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:15:20AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It should be fairly clear given what they do I'd have thought - the
> > devm_ functions tie the deallocation of a resource to the unbinding of
> > a driver from a device so they can only be used to replace things that
> > get cleaned up in a device model unbind path.  There's not usually a
> > great deal of indirection going on in those.

> It is completely clear what they do.  What is not clear is what device
> libraries are set up to call the freeing functions at what point.  For
> example, I know that that platform drivers are set up for this, but once I
> tried to find the lines of code that would justify that, but I could not.
> Perhaps I was not patient enough or missed something.

All devices do this - it's done as part of the driver model core code so
there is no need for individual buses to do anything.

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