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

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Feb 03 2016 - 12:20:45 EST


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 05:25:28PM +0100, Harald Geyer wrote:
> 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?

Add the matching frees? I'm not sure I know what the original problem
is mind you.

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