[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm8962: Convert to devm_input_allocate_device()

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 08:00:29AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> > This seems like a bug that should be fixed on the API side, it's really
> > not what you'd expect a devm function to do, and if you are explicitly
> > freeing a devm allocated object there's an expectation that you need to
> > call a corresponding devm cleanup function.

> I can't agree with you about the "expectation" - device memory can be in use.
> This code will free memory after all references will be freed.
> Additionally it is up-to developer to decide what to do if
> input_register_device call failed.
> According to the code base
> (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=input_free_device)
> the patch is not correct.

Right, but what I'm saying is that this is not how a devm_ API is
expected to behave and is therefore at best error prone on two fronts -
both due to the fact that you need to clean up explicitly even if the
resource is not actually managed and also due to the fact that the
regular free function is being used rather than a devm_ one when
explicit deallocation is done.  Neither of these things is normal for a
devm_ API.  The behaviour you're describing says that the managed
function should actually be registration not allocation.
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