Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] ACPI: Support __free() from cleanup.h for ACPI objects

Sakari Ailus <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:07:52 +0300

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-acpi,org.kernel.vger.linux-media,org.kernel.vger.platform-driver-x86
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Hi Rafael,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 01:51:18PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM Sakari Ailus
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Use DEFINE_FREE() to allow ACPI objects to be released automatically.
> 
> But at least some of them are allocated by ACPICA functions like
> acpi_evaluate_object() and so they have no proper constructors.

You could still assign the return buffer to a local variable. It's not
ideal API-wise though.

I'm not quite sure what was the point you wanted to make but I reckon this
wasn't an ack. :-)

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus