Re: [PATCH] power: max77693_charger: Better sysfs creation and using devm APIs
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-12-17 16:28:52
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 05:04:46PM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
Hi, On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 09:56:27PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:quoted
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 07:49:25PM +0530, Srikant Ritolia wrote:quoted
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 02:21:38PM +0530, Srikant Ritolia wrote:>quoted
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&max77693_charger_desc, &psy_cfg); if (IS_ERR(chg->charger)) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed: power supply register\n"); ret = PTR_ERR(chg->charger); - goto err;Missing sysfs cleanup. Best regards, KrzysztofThanks for pointing this out. To overcome this I will use sysfs_create_group after devm_power_supply_register. Then I would not need to do this sysfs cleanup on failure of power supply register.I am not sure if this is good idea. This patch does not bring any particular noticeable benefit except less lines of code. It is not worth breaking things just for that reason...I like less lines of code. How does the changed registration order break anything? The changed registration order makes sense anyways, since it then matches the (reversed) removal order.
By broken things I meant possible errors introduced with devm conversion (like that one spotted above). To me personally, converting to devm on its own mostly does not bring benefits except few cases when a lot of code disappears. On the other hand it hides the order of cleanup making it slightly more difficult to review. Overall - not many benefits, some things hidden. However I understand that this is highly subjective so I am not against if others like this approach. Best regards, Krzysztof