The patch titled Subject: drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c: use devm_ functions has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-use-devm_-functions.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c: use devm_ functions 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. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c~drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-use-devm_-functions drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c --- a/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c~drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-use-devm_-functions +++ a/drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(st struct adp5520_bl *data; int ret = 0; - data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL); + data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL); if (data == NULL) return -ENOMEM; @@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(st if (data->pdata == NULL) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "missing platform data\n"); - kfree(data); return -ENODEV; } @@ -314,7 +313,6 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(st &adp5520_bl_ops, &props); if (IS_ERR(bl)) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register backlight\n"); - kfree(data); return PTR_ERR(bl); } @@ -326,7 +324,6 @@ static int __devinit adp5520_bl_probe(st if (ret) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register sysfs\n"); backlight_device_unregister(bl); - kfree(data); } platform_set_drvdata(pdev, bl); @@ -348,7 +345,6 @@ static int __devexit adp5520_bl_remove(s &adp5520_bl_attr_group); backlight_device_unregister(bl); - kfree(data); return 0; } _ Subject: Subject: drivers/video/backlight/adp5520_bl.c: use devm_ functions Patches currently in -mm which might be from Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-video-backlight-wm831x_blc-use-devm_-functions.patch drivers-video-backlight-use-devm_-functions.patch drivers-video-backlight-adp5520_blc-use-devm_-functions.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html