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From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
To: Benjamin Mugnier <benjamin.mugnier@foss.st.com>
Cc: R Sundar <prosunofficial@gmail.com>,
	sylvain.petinot@foss.st.com, mchehab@kernel.org,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	skhan@linuxfoundation.org, javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] media: i2c: st-mipid02: replace of_node_put() with __free
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:04:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zi9ij_9vW8ADl2fC@kekkonen.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2432381-827f-4825-a450-9954f8291576@foss.st.com>

Hi Benjamin,

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:52:34AM +0200, Benjamin Mugnier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for your patch.
> 
> On 4/27/24 11:56, R Sundar wrote:
> > Use the new cleanup magic to replace of_node_put() with
> > __free(device_node) marking to auto release and to simplify the error
> > paths.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
> > Signed-off-by: R Sundar <prosunofficial@gmail.com>
> 
> I was not aware of this kind of auto release mechanism. Thanks for
> bringing that to my eyes.
> 
> Now I looked in /drivers/media and couldn't find such structure. All
> drivers seem to follow the goto error_of_node_put style.
> As I'm unsure if we want to introduce such magic, could either Laurent
> or Sakari comment on this ?

It's new and little used so far. I don't have concerns using it, although
it's mostly useful in cases where all exit paths release the same resource.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-29  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-27  9:56 [PATCH linux-next] media: i2c: st-mipid02: replace of_node_put() with __free R Sundar
2024-04-29  8:52 ` Benjamin Mugnier
2024-04-29  9:04   ` Sakari Ailus [this message]
2024-04-29 16:02   ` R Sundar

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