Re: [PATCH v3] soc: ti: Convert allocations to devm

[Kevin Hilman]

Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> writes:

> On 20:00-20221028, Nicolas Frayer wrote:
>
> Quick cosmetics:
> linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (moderated list:TI KEYSTONE MULTICORE NAVIGATOR DRIVERS)
> is part of the results of get_maintainers.pl  why drop not CC it?
>
>  git log --oneline drivers/soc/ti/k3-socinfo.c
> soc: ti: k3-socinfo:
>
> Please fix the $subject
>
>> Changed the memory and resource allocations in the probe function
>> to devm. Also added a remove callback.
>
> Yes, but why are we doing this change, what benefit do we get by doing
> this change?
>
>
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frayer <nfrayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 
>> v2->v3:
>> dropped module conversion part of this series while other driver dependencies
>> on socinfo are worked out.
>> A dependency issue is introduced by changing subsys_initcall()
>> to module_platform_driver(). Some drivers using the socinfo information probe
>> before the socinfo driver itself and it makes their probe fail.
>> 
>> Dropped series:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221010131538.7333-1-nfrayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> OK - if we are'nt going to convert this into modules, then is there a
> reason for this patch?

Yeah, Nishanth has a good point here.  Lets wait on this patch an
included it with the module conversion once we figure out the deferred
probe issues around this.

Kevin