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authorJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>2012-03-23 15:02:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-23 16:58:33 -0700
commitce969228fdb54a7e3d7cc1ed27367fd4b9525d74 (patch)
tree9850c7cc96d582302769c442e00142ac30a7bbc3 /drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
parent1107d40a50956146d1272f5cffcdf1d83f7e703e (diff)
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drivers/video/backlight: use devm_ functions
The various devm_ functions allocate memory that is released when a driver detaches. This patch uses these functions for data that is allocated in the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the remove function. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
index c915e3b53886..e833ac72e063 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/max8925_bl.c
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ static int __devinit max8925_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
}
- data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct max8925_backlight_data), GFP_KERNEL);
+ data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct max8925_backlight_data),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (data == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
strncpy(name, res->name, MAX8925_NAME_SIZE);
@@ -143,7 +144,6 @@ static int __devinit max8925_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
&max8925_backlight_ops, &props);
if (IS_ERR(bl)) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register backlight\n");
- kfree(data);
return PTR_ERR(bl);
}
bl->props.brightness = MAX_BRIGHTNESS;
@@ -165,17 +165,14 @@ static int __devinit max8925_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return 0;
out:
backlight_device_unregister(bl);
- kfree(data);
return ret;
}
static int __devexit max8925_backlight_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct backlight_device *bl = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
- struct max8925_backlight_data *data = bl_get_data(bl);
backlight_device_unregister(bl);
- kfree(data);
return 0;
}