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From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: leds: Add support for "link" trigger
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:21:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b789b023-2e7b-1f5b-59a6-9676db74e850@maciej.szmigiero.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171101121611.GD12680@lunn.ch>

Hi Andrew,

On 01.11.2017 13:16, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> @@ -123,6 +153,10 @@ int phy_led_triggers_register(struct phy_device *phy)
>>  	while (i--)
>>  		phy_led_trigger_unregister(&phy->phy_led_triggers[i]);
>>  	devm_kfree(&phy->mdio.dev, phy->phy_led_triggers);
>> +out_unreg_link:
>> +	phy_led_trigger_unregister(phy->led_link_trigger);
>> +out_free_link:
>> +	devm_kfree(&phy->mdio.dev, phy->led_link_trigger);
> 
> Hi Maciej
> 
> The point of the devm_ API is that you don't need to worry about
> freeing the memory. The core will do it, when the driver is removed.
> 
> I guess you are just copying the code above, which i would also say is
> unnecessary.

Yes, I did it the same way as the existing code did for phy->phy_led_triggers
for reasons of both consistency and also to be on the safe side because
maybe there is some non-obvious reason why it has to be freed
explicitly (?).

> 	Andrew

Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-01 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31 11:56 [PATCH v2] net: phy: leds: Add support for "link" trigger Maciej S. Szmigiero
2017-11-01 12:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-01 12:21   ` Maciej S. Szmigiero [this message]
2017-11-01 12:31     ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-01 12:33       ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2017-11-01 23:49         ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2017-11-02  0:14           ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-01 12:37     ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-01 12:43       ` Maciej S. Szmigiero

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