Re: linux-next: manual merge of the usb tree with the usb.current tree

[Johan Hovold]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 01:04:44PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the usb tree got a conflict in:
> 
>   drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> 
> between commit:
> 
>   63cb03f5c11e ("usb: core: split usb_phy_roothub_{init,alloc}")
> 
> from the usb.current tree and commit:
> 
>   bc40f5341741 ("USB: core: hcd: drop support for legacy phys")
> 
> from the usb tree.
> 
> I fixed it up (see below - though I am not sure what happens to the
> phy_roothub allocation when usb_phy_roothub_init fails) and can carry
> the fix as necessary.

The resolution looks correct to me. The allocations done by
usb_phy_roothub_alloc() are device managed and would be freed on probe
failures (or unbind) so not explicit dealloc is needed. It might be a
good idea to indicate that in the function name however (i.e. to add a
devm_ prefix).

Johan