Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: gpio: Avoid unnecessarily copying data structures in probe()

[Harald Geyer]

Mark Brown writes:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 07:55:17PM +0000, Harald Geyer wrote:
> > The data structures either have been copied in
> > of_get_gpio_regulator_config() already or are part of platform data,
> > which we keep a pointer to for the life time of the device anyway.
> 
> The point of this code is to avoid referring to platform data after
> probe for robustness.

Well, if we can't rely on platform data staying available after probe()
then probably we shouldn't keep a pointer to it - but thats a different
issue, so lets focus on the original problem:

What's your preferred way to fix the error path of probe() then?

Harald