Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] iio: adc: meson_saradc: Use temporary variable for struct device

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Jun 02 2022 - 09:46:12 EST


On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 2:08 PM Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/2/22 13:42, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

...

> > - priv->adc_clk = devm_clk_register(&indio_dev->dev, &priv->clk_gate.hw);
> > + priv->adc_clk = devm_clk_register(idev, &priv->clk_gate.hw);
>
> You are not changing anything here.

The scope of patch is supposed not to change the current behaviour :-)

> But we shouldn't be devm'ing on the
> IIO device. It will get freed eventually, but only when the last
> reference to the iio device has been dropped, which might be long after
> the platform device has been removed. devm'ing should happen on the
> platform_device's device. Might be worth fixing.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions (as I mentioned to Martin, using
an IIO device there feels wrong).
I will add another patch to v3.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko