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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:55:31 -0800
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
To:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...ics.com>
CC:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Gyungoh Yoo <jack.yoo@...im-ic.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	Graeme Gregory <gg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] regulator: max8907: Fix using wrong dev argument
 for calling of_regulator_match

On 01/24/2013 06:20 PM, Axel Lin wrote:
> The dev parameter is the device requesting the data.
> In this case it should be &pdev->dev rather than pdev->dev.parent.
> 
> The dev parameter is used to call devm_kzalloc in of_get_regulator_init_data(),
> which means this fixes a memory leak because the memory is allocated every time
> probe() is called, thus it should be freed when this driver is unloaded.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
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