linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: Actually free the regulator in devm_regulator

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Date:	Mon, 07 May 2012 13:10:08 +0100
From:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Actually free the regulator in
 devm_regulator_put()

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 12:41 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> It turns out that (quite surprisingly) devres_destroy() only undoes the
> devres mapping, it doesn't destroy the underlying resource, meaning that
> anything using devm_regulator_put() would leak. While we wait for the new
> devres_release() which does what we want to get merged open code it in
> devm_regulator_put().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>

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