staging: comedi: have comedi_set_spriv() allocate the memory
As suggested by Ian Abbott, comedi_set_spriv() can only be used to set the subdevice->private pointer to something that can be kfree()'d. Rename the function to comedi_alloc_spriv() and have it kzalloc() the memory as well as set the private pointer. This saves a function call in the drivers and avoids the possibility of incorrectly calling comedi_set_spriv() for some pointer that is not meant to be kfree()'d. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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