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Message-ID: <3490462.ARevfiQkZD@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Mon, 07 Dec 2015 02:31:25 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	dmaengine <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] device core: add BUS_NOTIFY_DRIVER_NOT_BOUND notification

On Saturday, December 05, 2015 08:36:22 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 06:24:05PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:49:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >> The users of BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER have no chance to do any cleanup in case of
> > >> a probe failure. In the result there might be problems, such as some resources
> > >> that had been allocated will continue to be allocated and therefore lead to a
> > >> resource leak.
> > >>
> > >> Introduce a new notification to inform the subscriber that ->probe() failed. Do
> > >> the same in case of failed device_bind_driver() call.
> > >
> > > Ugh, I hate all these notifiers, but this one does make sense...
> > 
> > Yeah, I'm not a fan of them either.
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > You meant Acked-by, didn't you?
> 
> Either works :)

Thanks!

Andy, what about if I put patches [1-6/9] into my queue for v4.5 now and
the remaining ones will wait for Vinod to comment?

Thanks,
Rafael

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