linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: Fix deadlock during regulator registration

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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:38:29 -0400
From:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Fix deadlock during regulator registration

Hello Mark,

On 03/30/2016 07:34 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 07:25:49PM -0400, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
>> You are doing some cleanup of the clean and scrub error paths by removing
>> rdev and returning ERR_PTR(ret) directly. I believe that should be in a
>> separate patch since is not related to the fix.
> 
> There needs to be some reorganization due to the movement with the mutex
> handling.
> 

Yes, I know. My point was that besides the reorganization that is needed,
he is removing some variables and that seemed like a separate change to me.

But of course you are the maintainer so ignore my comment if you don't mind
about that.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America