linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: gpio-regulator: use devm_regulator

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Date:	Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:01:24 +0900
From:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
To:	'Mark Brown' <broonie@...nel.org>,
	'Heiko Stübner' <heiko@...ech.de>
Cc:	'Liam Girdwood' <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 'Axel Lin' <axel.lin@...ics.com>,
	'Jingoo Han' <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] regulator: gpio-regulator: use
 devm_regulator_register()

On Friday, December 06, 2013 9:09 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:12:05AM +0100, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> 
> > I'm not this firm in the core driver/device behaviour, but when looking at
> > __device_release_driver I see that the remove callback runs before
> > devres_release_all, which would effectively free the gpios before the
> > regulator gets unregistered - is this racy with a regulator change at the same
> > time?
> 
> Yes, the rest of the driver really needs to be converted to devm_ at the
> same time.

The gpios is requested by gpio_request_array().
However, devm_gpio_request_array() is not supported yet,
so the rest of the driver cannot be converted to devm_.

Mark Brown,
Please ignore this patch.

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

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