Hi Jerome > The AIU is a device that provides multiple ASoC components. I know it is > border line to have this and I'm sorry I was not able to contribute on > this lately. > > The device is a bit complex as it is. The allocation in question really > belongs to DAI. Moving it to the device level might be possible but it > would not help make the code easy to follow and maintain. > > I usually pick devm_ function whenever possible but here I chose the old > school way on purpose, to make sure the memory is managed correctly. (snip) > It would still allocate the memory multiple times if the card driver > gets unloaded and reloaded, manually for example. > > It would be strange to do so, but it remains incorrect from the driver > to allocate the memory like this. OK, let's skip this patch. It is not a big deal Thank you for your help !! Best regards --- Kuninori Morimoto
