Re: [PATCH v17 3/4] usb: gadget: Integrate with the usb gadget supporting for usb charger
From: Baolin Wang
Date: Tue Oct 11 2016 - 01:11:57 EST
Hi Baolu,
On 11 October 2016 at 12:32, Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/11/2016 12:07 PM, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>>> /*
>>>> >> + * usb_charger_unregister() - Unregister a usb charger.
>>>> >> + * @uchger - the usb charger to be unregistered.
>>>> >> + */
>>>> >> +static int usb_charger_unregister(struct usb_charger *uchger)
>>>> >> +{
>>>> >> + ida_simple_remove(&usb_charger_ida, uchger->id);
>>>> >> + sysfs_remove_groups(&uchger->gadget->dev.kobj, usb_charger_groups);
>>>> >> +
>>>> >> + mutex_lock(&charger_lock);
>>>> >> + list_del(&uchger->list);
>>>> >> + mutex_unlock(&charger_lock);
>>>> >> +
>>>> >> + kfree(uchger);
>>> >
>>> > Any reasons you want to put kfree() here? You allocated the memory
>>> > in usb_charger_init(). Isn't usb_charger_exit() a better place?
>> The usb_charger_exit() will issue usb_charger_unregister() and we need
>> use the usb_charger structure in usb_charger_unregister() to
>> unregister the usb charger.
>>
>
> This seems not to be a strong reason. :-)
>
> You can unregister the charger first and then free the structure.
> Just do the reverse operation of what you have done in the init
> function.
Make sense to me. I will modify this in next version. Thanks for your comments.
--
Baolin.wang
Best Regards