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Takashi Iwai
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This is a preparation for allowing devres usages more widely in various sound drivers. As a first step, this patch adds a new allocator function, snd_devm_alloc_pages(), to manage the allocated pages via devres, so that the pages will be automagically released as device unbinding. Unlike the old snd_dma_alloc_pages(), the new function returns directly the snd_dma_buffer pointer. The caller needs NULL-check for the allocation error appropriately. Also, since a real device pointer is mandatory for devres, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_CONTINUOUS or SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_VMALLOC type can't be used for this function. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210715075941.23332-2-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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