[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/5] [RFC]intel_hdmi_audio: interface module

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:05:05AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 07:09:43PM +0530, ramesh.babu at intel.com wrote:

> > > +	intelhaddata = device->device_data;

> > This function doesn't appear to do anything like what either the
> > description or name would suggest?  I'd expect to see some deallocation
> > going on...

> Reading through the code, the construct doesn't seem to allocate any
> private stuff but only standard components, so this callback doesn't
> have to do anything much, I suppose.

To be honest half the issue was the above quoted line - if the function
had been empty I'd have been less concerned (and probably just said to
remove it).