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Message-ID: <a6yf3ms7smzjfcm54z7khg6g3zpepqwxcbhwzm74dk33famolr@s2at2tnyxoed>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:50:37 +0530
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Ally Heev <allyheev@...il.com>, 
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, workflows@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@...il.com>, 
	Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, 
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>, linux-pm <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free
 attribute check

On 21-10-25, 10:06, Joe Perches wrote:
> There are many uses in drivers/opp/ that could be updated where
> the initialization is done after the definition like the below:
> (I've added the opp maintainers to the cc's)
> 
> drivers/opp/core.c-unsigned long dev_pm_opp_get_max_clock_latency(struct device *dev)
> drivers/opp/core.c-{
> drivers/opp/core.c:     struct opp_table *opp_table __free(put_opp_table);
> drivers/opp/core.c-
> drivers/opp/core.c-     opp_table = _find_opp_table(dev);

https://lore.kernel.org/all/45a64ff434a027c296d1d5c35f442e51378c9425.1761128347.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org/

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viresh