Re: [PATCH 1/6] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 06:27:24 EST


On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:07:23PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> The probe error handling is not quite correct. When we reach the fragment
> above ret variable is 0 so if platfrom_device_alloc() fails we will return
> 0 and the device will be considered bound but in half-dead state. Please
> make sure that proper error is returned in all cases. Also please do not
> mix out of line and in-line error unwinding (input_free_device() should
> be called in the error path and if you are concerned about double-free
> after input_unregister_device() just set wm->input_dev to NULL there).

Thanks for the review, I've implemented these changes and will resubmit
as a followup to this e-mail, also including a change from Dmitry
Baryshkov to make the devices unnumbered.
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