Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] i2c: i2c-core-acpi: Add i2c_acpi_dev_name()

From: Daniel Scally
Date: Thu Jan 28 2021 - 04:21:50 EST


On 28/01/2021 09:00, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>>> There's a real danger of a memory leak, as the function name sounds very
>>> similar to dev_name() or acpi_dev_name() and those don't allocate
>>> memory. I'm not sure what a better name would be, but given that this
>>> function is only used in patch 6/7 and not in the I2C subsystem itself,
>>> I wonder if we should inline this kasprintf() call in the caller and
>>> drop this patch.
>> IMO if this is a one-off usage, it's better to open-code it.
> Sounds reasonable to me, too.
>
Just to clarify; "open-code" meaning inline it in the caller like
Laurent said, right?