Hi Heiko Thank you for your reply. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Heiko Stübner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday, 28. January 2014 12:46:01 Manish Badarkhe wrote: >> Hi Dmitry, >> >> Thank you for your review. >> >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Dmitry Torokhov >> >> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi Manish, >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:42:00AM +0530, Manish Badarkhe wrote: >> >> Update the code to use devm_* API so that driver core will manage >> >> resources. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Manish Badarkhe <badarkhe.manish@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> --- >> >> Changes since V1: >> >> 1. Updated driver to use "devm_kzalloc" to "kstrdup". >> >> 2. Updated commit message. >> >> >> >> Not tested on any board. >> >> >> >> :100644 100644 5ea64b9... e9763a4... M drivers/regulator/fixed.c >> >> : >> >> drivers/regulator/fixed.c | 42 >> >> ++++++++++++------------------------------ >> >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) >> >> >> >> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/fixed.c b/drivers/regulator/fixed.c >> >> index 5ea64b9..e9763a4 100644 >> >> --- a/drivers/regulator/fixed.c >> >> +++ b/drivers/regulator/fixed.c >> >> @@ -132,15 +132,15 @@ static int reg_fixed_voltage_probe(struct >> >> platform_device *pdev)>> >> >> GFP_KERNEL); >> >> >> >> if (drvdata == NULL) { >> >> >> >> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to allocate device data\n"); >> >> >> >> - ret = -ENOMEM; >> >> - goto err; >> >> + return -ENOMEM; >> >> >> >> } >> >> >> >> - drvdata->desc.name = kstrdup(config->supply_name, GFP_KERNEL); >> >> + drvdata->desc.name = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, >> >> + strlen(config->supply_name) + 1, >> >> + GFP_KERNEL); >> >> >> >> if (drvdata->desc.name == NULL) { >> >> >> >> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to allocate supply name\n"); >> >> >> >> - ret = -ENOMEM; >> >> - goto err; >> >> + return -ENOMEM; >> >> >> >> } >> > >> > Umm, I am fairly certain that devm_kzalloc() can't be used as a >> > substitute for kstrdup, at least not without accompanying memcpy. >> >> Yes, I have provided allocation but it should be followed with assignment. >> Can I modify like this, >> >> + drvdata->desc.name = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, >> + strlen(config->supply_name) + 1, >> + GFP_KERNEL); >> + if (drvdata->desc.name) >> + sprintf(drvdata->desc.name, "%s", config->supply_name); > > hmm, so you replaced a general helper function by open coding the string- > duplication. Doesn't this defeat the target of simplifying the code? Intention here, is to use devm_ API and to adopt this I have to do these modifications for "kstrdup" functions. I have seen in regulator folder almost all drivers adopted to "devm_" API. Hence same thing I am following to update this driver. Please let me know whether to go ahead with this patch or retain driver as it is. Regards Manish Badarkhe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html