On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 02:24:51PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote: > I started using devm_kcalloc() but at least two reviewers convinced me > to just use kcalloc(). In addition, when I was using devm_kcalloc() > it was awkward because 'dev' is not available to this function. > > It comes down to whether unbind/binding the device N times is actually > a reasonable usage. As for my experience I've seen two cases: (1) my > overnight "bind/unbind the PCIe RC driver" script, and we have a > customer who does an unbind/bind as a hail mary to bring back life to > their dead EP device. If the latter case happens repeatedly, there > are bigger problems. We can't just leak the allocations. Do you have a pointer to the arguments against managed resources? I'm generally not a huge fan of the managed resources, but for a case like this they actually seem useful. If we don't use the managed resources we'll at leat need to explicitly free the resources when freeing the device. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
