linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] thermal/drivers/sun8i: Free calibration nvmem after reading it

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Message-ID: <69a2bef8-efcc-2ca2-debd-201555833e43@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:52:11 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@...il.com>,
        Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
        Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal/drivers/sun8i: Free calibration nvmem after
 reading it

On 19/07/2023 02:58, Mark Brown wrote:
> The sun8i thermal driver reads calibration data via the nvmem API at
> startup, updating the device configuration and not referencing the data
> again.  Rather than explicitly freeing the nvmem data the driver relies
> on devm_ to release it, even though the data is never referenced again.
> The allocation is still tracked so it's not leaked but this is notable
> when looking at the code and is a little wasteful so let's instead
> explicitly free the nvmem after we're done with it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

Applied, thanks


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