[PATCH 0/3] spi: core: Introduce devm_spi_alloc_master

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:23:09AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:

> This patchset introduces a devm_spi_alloc_master to the spi core. While most of
> the drivers have a spi_master_put call in the probe, a lot of them using the
> devm_spi_register_master function are missing it in the remove function,
> leading to leaked resources.

This seems confusing - the idea here is that if we've handed the device
off to the managed function then the managed function deals with
destroying it.  Note that spi_alloc_master() says that the put is only
required after errors adding the device (which would be the expected
behaviour if you look at other APIs).  Looking at the code I think there
is an issue here but I'm not at all clear that this is the best fix.
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