Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/w1/masters/mxc_w1.c: use devm_ functions

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On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 12:15:24AM +0100, Julia Lawall (Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>
> 
> The various devm_ functions allocate memory that is released when a driver
> detaches.  This patch uses these functions for data that is allocated in
> the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the remove
> function.
> 
> At the same time, this fixes two faults.  First, mdev, the result of
> kzalloc, was never freed.  Second, on failure of ioremap, 0 was returned.
> This has been replaced by -EBUSY, which was the failure value for the call
> to request_mem_region, with which the call to ioremap has been combined.
> 
> The warning message on failure of ioremap is dropped, because
> devm_request_and_ioremap already gives such messages on failure.
> 
> Finally, the initial call to platform_get_resource is moved closer to the
> call to devm_request_and_ioremap, which takes care of checking whether its
> result is NULL, implying that a test on the result of this call to
> platform_get_resource is not needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx>

Looks good. Greg, please pull both patches into your tree.
Thank you.

Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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