Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpio: pseudo: common helper functions for pseudo gpio devices

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Den-san,

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 15:28, Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Both gpio-sim and gpio-virtuser share a mechanism to instantiate a
> platform device and wait synchronously for probe completion.
> With gpio-aggregator adopting the same approach in a later commit for
> its configfs interface, it's time to factor out the common code.
>
> Add gpio-pseudo.[ch] to house helper functions used by all the pseudo
> GPIO device implementations.
>
> No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pseudo.c

> +int pseudo_gpio_register(struct pseudo_gpio_common *common,
> +                        struct platform_device_info *pdevinfo)
> +{
> +       struct platform_device *pdev;
> +       char *name;
> +
> +       name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s.%u", pdevinfo->name, pdevinfo->id);
> +       if (!name)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       common->driver_bound = false;
> +       common->name = name;
> +       reinit_completion(&common->probe_completion);
> +       bus_register_notifier(&platform_bus_type, &common->bus_notifier);
> +
> +       pdev = platform_device_register_full(pdevinfo);
> +       if (IS_ERR(pdev)) {
> +               bus_unregister_notifier(&platform_bus_type, &common->bus_notifier);
> +               kfree(common->name);

On arm32:
error: implicit declaration of function ‘kfree’

Adding #include <linux/slab.h> fixes that.
Probably you want to include a few more, to avoid relying on
implicit includes.


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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