On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 01:18:54PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Mark Brown wrote: > >With this and probably a bunch of the other corrections in this series a > >conversion to devm_kazlloc() would be a more complete fix as it prevents > >people introducing similar missing cleanup paths in future. Not sure if > >spatch can generate that automatically though... > I saw a patch for that recently, and looked into it a little bit, > but I wasn't sure what should be done. What are the criteria for > using devm_kzalloc? It's good for any allocation that lasts for the lifetime of the device - most driver data allocated in probe() fits well, for example. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
