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Re: [PATCH 1/4] drivers/video/backlight/wm831x_bl.c: use devm_ functions

From: Mark Brown <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-21 12:33:53
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:25:29PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
From: Julia Lawall <redacted>

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.
Acked-by: Mark Brown <redacted>
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