linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] thermal: Introduce devm_thermal_of_cooling_device

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Message-ID: <20190501164843.GA16333@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Wed, 1 May 2019 09:48:43 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        Avi Fishman <avifishman70@...il.com>,
        Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@...il.com>,
        Tali Perry <tali.perry1@...il.com>,
        Patrick Venture <venture@...gle.com>,
        Nancy Yuen <yuenn@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair@...gle.com>,
        Kamil Debski <kamil@...as.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] thermal: Introduce
 devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:58:15PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> thermal_of_cooling_device_register() and thermal_cooling_device_register()
> are typically called from driver probe functions, and
> thermal_cooling_device_unregister() is called from remove functions. This
> makes both a perfect candidate for device managed functions.
> 
> Introduce devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(). This function can
> also be used to replace thermal_cooling_device_register() by passing a NULL
> pointer as device node. The new function requires both struct device *
> and struct device_node * as parameters since the struct device_node *
> parameter is not always identical to dev->of_node.
> 
> Don't introduce a device managed remove function since it is not needed
> at this point.
> 

Any feedback / thoughts / comments ?

Thanks,
Guenter