linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_of: replace kzalloc with devm

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Message-ID: <2025082817-laborious-provoke-2ac0@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:51:50 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@...il.com>
Cc: jirislaby@...nel.org, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
	elder@...cstar.com, benjamin.larsson@...exis.eu,
	u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_of: replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 01:11:05AM +0200, Osama Abdelkader wrote:
> Use devm_kzalloc for automatic memory cleanup.

Why?

I do not see a good reason here as to how this makes anything better
overall?  How was it tested?

thanks,

greg k-h