Replying to myself... On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:46:55 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > I get the feeling that this would be a job for managed resources as > some drivers already do for I/O ports and IRQs. Managed resources don't > care about symmetry of allocation and freeing, by design (so it can > violate point 1 above.) Aha! Isn't it exactly what devm_kzalloc() is > all about? Thinking about it again, this really only addresses the calls to kfree(), not the calls to i2c_set_clientdata(), so apparently I'm quite off-topic for this discussion. I still think that moving drivers to managed resources is the way to go, but that's a different issue. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html