Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: sgtl5000: Use devm_ functions

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:15:20AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > It should be fairly clear given what they do I'd have thought - the
> > > devm_ functions tie the deallocation of a resource to the unbinding of
> > > a driver from a device so they can only be used to replace things that
> > > get cleaned up in a device model unbind path.  There's not usually a
> > > great deal of indirection going on in those.
> 
> > It is completely clear what they do.  What is not clear is what device
> > libraries are set up to call the freeing functions at what point.  For
> > example, I know that that platform drivers are set up for this, but once I
> > tried to find the lines of code that would justify that, but I could not.
> > Perhaps I was not patient enough or missed something.
> 
> All devices do this - it's done as part of the driver model core code so
> there is no need for individual buses to do anything.

How should one realize that this does not apply to the original file 
under discussion, sound/soc/codecs/sgtl5000.c?  The associated structure 
is snd_soc_codec_driver.  What code could one look for at the call sites 
of the probe and remove functions to know that managed memory can be used?

thanks,
julia