Re: [PATCH] thermal: power_allocator: do not use devm* interfaces

From: Javi Merino
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 13:29:24 EST


On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 05:50:20PM +0100, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 09:29:11AM +0100, Javi Merino wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:33:40PM +0100, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > The code in question is called outside of standard driver
> > > probe()/remove() callbacks and thus will not benefit from use of devm*
> > > infrastructure.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > We added the devm* calls because Eduardo asked for them in the review.
> > I don't have a strong opinion regarding this, I'll leave the decision
> > to Eduardo.
>
> I tried to look for his reasons, if any, but even in earliest posted
> versions use devm* for allocating memory

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/45000/focus=45265
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/46064/focus=1722858

He didn't give reasons and I didn't ask for them. He insisted on it so I just added
it across the board.

Cheers,
Javi
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