Re: [PATCH v3] pinctrl: mediatek: Fix multiple registration issue.

From: Axel Lin
Date: Fri Aug 21 2015 - 01:08:31 EST


2015-08-21 12:46 GMT+08:00 Hongzhou Yang <hongzhou.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Since our common driver need support main chip and PMU
> at the same time, that means it will register two
> pinctrl device, and the pinctrl_desc structure should
> be used two times.
>
> But pinctrl_desc use global static definition, then
> the latest registered pinctrl device will overwrite
> the old one's, all members in pinctrl_desc will set to
> the new one's, such as name, pins and pins numbers, etc.
> This is a bug. Changing to use devm_kzalloc to fix it.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.1+
> Signed-off-by: Hongzhou Yang <hongzhou.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Use dynamic allocation to fix multiple registration issue.

The code looks good to me but the commit log needs fix.
You don't use devm_kzalloc now.
Just embedded struct pinctrl_desc pctl_desc to struct mtk_pinctrl.

Reviewed-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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