linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] chipidea: Use devm_request

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Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:57:51 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Peter Chen <peter.chen@...escale.com>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
	alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, kernel@...gutronix.de,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] chipidea: Use devm_request_irq()

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:42:15AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:27:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It's really only interrupts that affect most devices - if there's DMA or
> > anything going on after the remove() then as you said earlier the driver
> > is probably doing something wrong.

> Hmmm... it depends on the specific driver is converted but if the
> deactivation sequence - shutting down of command engine - is also
> handled by devm as in libata and if you have non-devres resource free
> in the exit path, you have the same problem.  Again, in general,

That's the only API I've ever heard of doing that.  Everything else is
just using it to do deallocation.

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