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Message-Id: <1236855377.6781.202.camel@vega.slimlogic.co.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:56:17 +0000 From: Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk> To: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...ena.org.uk>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, OMAP <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.29-rc7 regulator-next] regulator: refcount fixes On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:43 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > From: David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net> > > Fix some refcounting issues in the regulator framework, supporting > regulator_disable() for regulators that were enabled at boot time > via machine constraints: > > - Update those regulators' usecounts after enabling, so they > can cleanly be disabled at that level. > > - Remove the problematic per-consumer usecount, so there's > only one level of enable/disable. > > Buggy consumers could notice different bug symptoms. The main > example would be refcounting bugs; also, any (out-of-tree) users > of the experimental regulator_set_optimum_mode() stuff which > don't call it when they're done using a regulator. > > This is a net minor codeshrink. > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net> > --- Applied. Thanks Liam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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