Re: [PATCH 4/4] mfd: 88pm800: allocate pdata->rtc if not allocated earlier

From: Lee Jones
Date: Mon Jun 01 2015 - 04:22:13 EST


On Sat, 30 May 2015, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote:

> RTC in pmic 88PM800 can run even the core is powered off, and user
> can set alarm in RTC. When the alarm is timed out, the PMIC will power up
> the core, and the whole system will boot up. And during PMIC driver probe,
> it will read some register to find out whether this boot is caused by RTC
> timeout or not, and pass on this information to the RTC driver.
>
> So we need rtc platform data to be existed in PMIC driver to pass this
> information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Xie <chao.xie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Hiremath <vaibhav.hiremath@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/88pm800.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c b/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c
> index 8ea4467..34546a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c
> @@ -586,6 +586,25 @@ static int pm800_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> return ret;
> }
>
> + /*
> + * RTC in pmic can run even the core is powered off, and user can set
> + * alarm in RTC. When the alarm is time out, the PMIC will power up
> + * the core, and the whole system will boot up. When PMIC driver is
> + * probed, it will read out some register to find out whether this
> + * boot is caused by RTC timeout or not, and it need pass this
> + * information to RTC driver.
> + * So we need rtc platform data to be existed to pass this information.
> + */
> + if (!pdata->rtc) {
> + pdata->rtc = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev,
> + sizeof(*(pdata->rtc)), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!pdata->rtc) {
> + dev_err(&client->dev,
> + "failed to allocate memory for rtc\n");
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> + }
> +

Where is this memory first used?

> ret = pm80x_init(client);
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(&client->dev, "pm800_init fail\n");

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