Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751895AbcJKFLu (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2016 01:11:50 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f176.google.com ([209.85.161.176]:35651 "EHLO mail-yw0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751110AbcJKFLs (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2016 01:11:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57FC6B51.9030205@linux.intel.com> References: <700f8d4fc3c52418eeba5445f6822093cc9ff036.1476000169.git.baolin.wang@linaro.org> <57FC573C.2060301@linux.intel.com> <57FC6B51.9030205@linux.intel.com> From: Baolin Wang Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:11:47 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 3/4] usb: gadget: Integrate with the usb gadget supporting for usb charger To: Lu Baolu Cc: Felipe Balbi , Greg KH , Sebastian Reichel , Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov , David Woodhouse , robh@kernel.org, Jun Li , Marek Szyprowski , Ruslan Bilovol , Peter Chen , Alan Stern , r.baldyga@samsung.com, grygorii.strashko@ti.com, Yoshihiro Shimoda , Lee Jones , Mark Brown , John Stultz , Charles Keepax , patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, Linux PM list , USB , device-mainlining@lists.linuxfoundation.org, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 39 Hi Baolu, On 11 October 2016 at 12:32, Lu Baolu wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/11/2016 12:07 PM, Baolin Wang wrote: >>>> /* >>>> >> + * usb_charger_unregister() - Unregister a usb charger. >>>> >> + * @uchger - the usb charger to be unregistered. >>>> >> + */ >>>> >> +static int usb_charger_unregister(struct usb_charger *uchger) >>>> >> +{ >>>> >> + ida_simple_remove(&usb_charger_ida, uchger->id); >>>> >> + sysfs_remove_groups(&uchger->gadget->dev.kobj, usb_charger_groups); >>>> >> + >>>> >> + mutex_lock(&charger_lock); >>>> >> + list_del(&uchger->list); >>>> >> + mutex_unlock(&charger_lock); >>>> >> + >>>> >> + kfree(uchger); >>> > >>> > Any reasons you want to put kfree() here? You allocated the memory >>> > in usb_charger_init(). Isn't usb_charger_exit() a better place? >> The usb_charger_exit() will issue usb_charger_unregister() and we need >> use the usb_charger structure in usb_charger_unregister() to >> unregister the usb charger. >> > > This seems not to be a strong reason. :-) > > You can unregister the charger first and then free the structure. > Just do the reverse operation of what you have done in the init > function. Make sense to me. I will modify this in next version. Thanks for your comments. -- Baolin.wang Best Regards