Re: [PATCH] power: supply: bq25630: Release battery information after setup

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 17:37 +0800 Linmao Li <[email protected]> wrote:

> data->batinfo is only used by bq25630_setup() to program the initial
> charge limits, but power_supply_get_battery_info() allocates it on
> psy->dev, so it stays around for the lifetime of the device. Nothing
> else in the driver uses it. Release it right after setup, as bq256xx
> and bq257xx do.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linmao Li <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/power/supply/bq25630_charger.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/bq25630_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/bq25630_charger.c
> index 165f8c67b4895..efcdb1f5bc351 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/bq25630_charger.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/bq25630_charger.c
> @@ -1045,10 +1045,9 @@ static int bq25630_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
>  		return dev_err_probe(data->dev, ret, "Could not request IRQ\n");
>  
>  	ret = bq25630_setup(data);
> -	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> +	power_supply_put_battery_info(data->psy, data->batinfo);
>  
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct of_device_id bq25630_of_match[] = {

The initial thought was that `batinfo` could/would be used elsewhere,
but as you point out, it's currently not. A better design is then to
move the `power_supply_get_battery_info()` into `bq25630_setup()`, in
order to scope the `get/put()`. So let's get `batinfo` there, just
before using it, and have an error/clean-up-path there as well.