Re: [RFC PATCH] device: Add kernel standard devm_k.alloc functions

[Kevin Hilman]

Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > A handful of boot panics on ARM platforms were bisected to point at
>> > the version of this commit that's in linux-next (commit
>> > 64c862a839a8db2c02bbaa88b923d13e1208919d).  Reverting this commit
>> > makes things happy again.
>> >
>> > Upon further digging, it seems that users of devres_alloc() are
>> > relying on the previous behavior of having the memory zero'd which is
>> > no longer the case after $SUBJECT patch.  The change below on top of
>> > -next makes these ARM boards happy again.
>> 
>> Oops, it should've fixed __devres_alloc() also.  Updated patch below.
>
> Can you send this in a format that I can apply it in?  It was whitespace
> damaged.

hmm, sorry about that.  This one should work, though I wonder if Andrew
should pick this up since I think the patch that causes the breakage
came through his tree.

Kevin

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