linux-kernel - Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] Use devm_ioremap

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Message-Id: <201407220202.02388.PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 02:02:02 +0200
From:	Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>
To:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] Use devm_ioremap_resource to reserve resource

Am Dienstag, 22. Juli 2014, 01:43:30 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 01:26:05AM +0200, Peter Huewe wrote:
> > Unfortunately the tpm_tis driver did never call request_region for its
> > adress space - now since we've got devm_ioremap_resource we can simply
> > remove all the stuff and do everything in one call.
> > 
> 
> Hurm, this makes the ordering truely horrible and opaque. Are you
> completely certain that in every case the devm unwide will happen only
> after cleanup_tis is called?
> 
> Intuitively, I would expect all devices to have been detached and
> resources freed prior to the module exit function being called...
> 
> I'd be much happier with mixing devm into this driver if it had a
> proper driver remove method and the unnecessary tis_chips list was
> purged.
> 
> Jason

Ok, thanks for the review - that's why I post this stuff to the mailing list 
first ;)

In my tests everything worked fine, but I agree that the TPM code is so 
horible that there might be a lot of cases not handled correctly.



I think I'll conjure up a "manual" patch, doing the request_region and 
release_region manually ?

Thanks,
Peter

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