linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] remoteproc: remove the now-redundant kref

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Message-ID: <20120702085911.GA16639@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 2 Jul 2012 09:59:11 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
Cc:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Fernando Guzman Lugo <fernando.lugo@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] remoteproc: remove the now-redundant kref

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:52:27AM +0300, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> Simplify the unregister/free interfaces, and make them easier
> to understand and use, by moving to a symmetric and consistent
> alloc() -> register() -> unregister() -> free() flow.

The naming in the driver model is:

alloc() -> add() -> del() -> put()

where alloc() is an allocation + initialization, and

register() -> unregister()

where register() is initialization + add() and
unregister() is del() + put().
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