[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ASoC: Intel: sst-acpi: Request firmware before SST platform driver probing

[Jarkko Nikula]

Hi

On 02/18/2014 04:58 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:42:03 +0200,
> Jarkko Nikula wrote:
>>   
>> -sst_err:
>> -	platform_device_unregister(sst_acpi->pdev_pcm);
>> -	return ret;
>> +	/* continue SST probing after firmware is loaded */
>> +	return request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, desc->fw_filename,
>> +				       dev, GFP_KERNEL, pdev, sst_acpi_fw_cb);
> sst_acpi->pdev_mach still should be unregistered when
> request_firmware_nowait() returns an error.
I was thinking to leave that for sst_acpi_remove but you are right, it 
doesn't make sense to leave it registered for instance if 
request_firmware_nowait fails because of -ENOMEM or some other fatal issue.

>>   }
>>   
>>   static int sst_acpi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>   {
>>   	struct sst_acpi_priv *sst_acpi = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>> +	struct sst_pdata *sst_pdata = &sst_acpi->sst_pdata;
>>   
>>   	platform_device_unregister(sst_acpi->pdev_mach);
>>   	platform_device_unregister(sst_acpi->pdev_pcm);
> With your patch, pdev_pcm isn't always a valid pointer.  You can't
> pass it unconditionally any longer.
>
I felt it was needless to test NULL pointers here since release_firmware 
checks it directly and platform_device_unregister indirectly. Not in 
platform_device_unregister but when calling platform_device_del and 
platform_device_put there.

-- 
Jarkko