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Message-ID: <20140402142356.GE2269@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2014 15:23:56 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	lgirdwood@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Get and put regulator of_node

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 03:06:54PM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:

> We should be incrementing the reference count of the of_node for the
> regulator when we take a copy of it. This patch does so.

Why?

Note that in any case this is going to have absolutely no impact on
practical systems since everything using regulators uses FDT at the
minute.

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