netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers: ipa: use devm

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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 12:47:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     wenhu.wang@...o.com, elder@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...o.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: ipa: use devm_kzalloc for simplicity

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 10:15:16 -0700

> On Wed, 13 May 2020 20:55:20 -0700 Wang Wenhu wrote:
>> Make a substitution of kzalloc with devm_kzalloc to simplify the
>> ipa_probe() process.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Wenhu <wenhu.wang@...o.com>
> 
> The code is perfectly fine as is. What problem are you trying to solve?

I agree, these kinds of transformations are kind of excessive.