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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:11:51 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] devres: allow adding custom actions to the stack

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:48:01PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 08:05:57PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Sometimes drivers need to execute one-off actions in their error handling
> > or device teardown paths. An example would be toggling a GPIO line to
> > reset the controlled device into predefined state.
> > 
> > To allow performing such actions when using managed resources let's allow
> > adding them to stack/group of devres resources.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> 

Thanks Tejun.

Greg, if possible I'd like to carry this in my tree as I have driver
changes depending on this.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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