Re: [PATCH 8/9] regulator: bd71837: BD71837 PMIC regulator driver

From: Matti Vaittinen
Date: Fri May 25 2018 - 08:00:42 EST


On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:14:23AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:22:53AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:51:27PM +0000, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:
>
> > > > devm_regulator_regster()
>
> > > Makes sense. Thanks
>
> > I was going to do
>
> > - pmic = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bd71837_pmic), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + pmic = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct bd71837_pmic),
> > + GFP_KERNEL);
>
> > and
>
> > - rdev = regulator_register(desc, &config);
> > + rdev = devm_regulator_register(&pdev->dev, desc, &config);
> >
> > but is there now a race regarding freeing the pmic structure and
> > unregistering the regulator?
>
> Why? devm_ stuff gets unwound in the opposite order to the order in
> which it was allocated.
Allright. Then there's no problems. I'll do the change.