linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata

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Date:   Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:26:21 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Moritz Fischer <mdf@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     corbet@....net, linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org, atull@...nel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, michal.simek@...inx.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata

On 04/26/2018 06:26 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> From: Alan Tull <atull@...nel.org>
> 
> Change fpga_mgr_register to not set or use drvdata.  This supports
> the case where a PCIe device has more than one manager.
> 
> Add fpga_mgr_create/free functions.  Change fpga_mgr_register and
> fpga_mgr_unregister functions to take the mgr struct as their only
> parameter.
> 
>   struct fpga_manager *fpga_mgr_create(struct device *dev,
>                 const char *name,
>                 const struct fpga_manager_ops *mops,
>                 void *priv);
>   void fpga_mgr_free(struct fpga_manager *mgr);
>   int fpga_mgr_register(struct fpga_manager *mgr);
>   void fpga_mgr_unregister(struct fpga_manager *mgr);
> 
> Update the drivers that call fpga_mgr_register with the new API.

Apologies for chiming in so late, this commit does not make it clear
that fpga_mgr_unregister() now also free the 'mgr' argument by calling
fpga_mgr_free(), this is kind of detail, but an API should make that
clear IMHO.

Thanks
-- 
Florian