On Thursday 14 November 2013, Marek Belisko wrote:
> + if (node && !pdata) {
> + pdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct bmp085_platform_data),
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!pdata)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
I generally recommend against allocating platform data from inside the driver,
as this requires more code and more memory than just adding fields to the
driver-specific data structure and copying over the fields from either
DT or the supplied platform data, depending on which one is used.
Arnd
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