auxdisplay: charlcd: Introduce charlcd_free() helper

The charlcd_free() is a counterpart to charlcd_alloc()
and should be called symmetrically on tear down.

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c
index 407acd22efa84b25dbfd3611cc9d1f813744ecb8..a351a94000543bdb563a361bf4cc774d82e0f2b1 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c
@@ -818,6 +818,12 @@ struct charlcd *charlcd_alloc(unsigned int drvdata_size)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(charlcd_alloc);
 
+void charlcd_free(struct charlcd *lcd)
+{
+       kfree(charlcd_to_priv(lcd));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(charlcd_free);
+
 static int panel_notify_sys(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long code,
                            void *unused)
 {

diff --git a/include/misc/charlcd.h b/include/misc/charlcd.h
index 23f61850f3639ae1686f9f83e0bac6e6a5015ba5..1832402324cef7a00cc1ca97327aa21dd65e836b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/misc/charlcd.h
+++ b/include/misc/charlcd.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct charlcd_ops {
 };
 
 struct charlcd *charlcd_alloc(unsigned int drvdata_size);
+void charlcd_free(struct charlcd *lcd);
 
 int charlcd_register(struct charlcd *lcd);
 int charlcd_unregister(struct charlcd *lcd);