extcon: Add extcon_dev_allocate/free() to control the memory of extcon device

This patch add APIs to control the extcon device on extcon provider driver.
The extcon_dev_allocate() allocates the memory of extcon device and initializes
supported cables. And then extcon_dev_free() decrement the reference of the
device of extcon device and free the memory of the extcon device. This APIs
must need to implement devm_extcon_dev_allocate()/free() APIs.

Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c
index f6df68989651..654ed52e17c2 100644
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c
@@ -565,6 +565,42 @@ static void dummy_sysfs_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 {
 }
 
+/*
+ * extcon_dev_allocate() - Allocate the memory of extcon device.
+ * @supported_cable:    Array of supported cable names ending with NULL.
+ *                      If supported_cable is NULL, cable name related APIs
+ *                      are disabled.
+ *
+ * This function allocates the memory for extcon device without allocating
+ * memory in each extcon provider driver and initialize default setting for
+ * extcon device.
+ *
+ * Return the pointer of extcon device if success or ERR_PTR(err) if fail
+ */
+struct extcon_dev *extcon_dev_allocate(const char **supported_cable)
+{
+        struct extcon_dev *edev;
+
+        edev = kzalloc(sizeof(*edev), GFP_KERNEL);
+        if (!edev)
+                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+        edev->max_supported = 0;
+        edev->supported_cable = supported_cable;
+
+        return edev;
+}
+
+/*
+ * extcon_dev_free() - Free the memory of extcon device.
+ * @edev:       the extcon device to free
+ */
+void extcon_dev_free(struct extcon_dev *edev)
+{
+        kfree(edev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(extcon_dev_free);
+
 /**
  * extcon_dev_register() - Register a new extcon device
  * @edev        : the new extcon device (should be allocated before calling)