Hi Hans,
Thanks for your review! I'll address the other comments you made.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:24:47PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
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+static int csi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+ struct sun4i_csi *csi;
+ struct resource *res;
+ int ret;
+ int irq;
+
+ csi = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*csi), GFP_KERNEL);
devm_kzalloc is not recommended: all devm_ memory is freed when the driver
is unbound, but a filehandle might still have a reference open.
How would a !devm variant with a kfree in the remove help? We would
still fall in the same case, right?
Thanks!
Maxime
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