linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Use devres for releasing of_regulator_match of

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Message-ID: <20140418172358.GO12304@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:23:58 +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: Use devres for releasing
 of_regulator_match of_nodes

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 01:34:36PM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> Rather than requiring individual drivers to put the of_nodes returned
> from of_regulator_match use devres to put them. This also has the
> benefit it makes the life-time of the of_nodes match the lifetime of
> the init data also contained in the of_regulator_match structure, which
> seems more consistent.

Applied, thanks.  It'd have been good to have explained that we were
already using managed allocations - allocating things without an explict
method for freeing if required is normally bad form, though it's
harmless and like I say already done here.

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