linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Add locked version of regulator

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:25:56 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	lrg@...com, ldewangan@...dia.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Add locked version of regulator_put to
 avoid deadlock

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:30:40PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:

> -void regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
> +static void __regulator_put_locked(struct regulator *regulator)

Please do follow the coding style of the rest of the code; nothing else
is using __ for private functions.

Please also clarify the changelog - you're not adding a new API here,
you're fiddling about with the internals.  Obviously regulator_put() is
always locked, you're just rearranging code inside the core here.

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