linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] media: dvb: Provide 4 devm variants

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Message-ID: <c7a7798b65e38355230d9ee235a3f8aa331123ca.camel@collabora.com>
Date:   Sun, 21 Jul 2019 12:02:44 -0300
From:   Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>
To:     Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr>,
        Sean Young <sean@...s.org>, Brad Love <brad@...tdimension.cc>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
Cc:     linux-media <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] media: dvb: Provide 4 devm variants

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your patch.

On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 15:03 +0200, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> Provide devm variants for automatic resource release on device removal.
> Makes error-handling in probe() simpler, thus less error-prone.
> Once all resources are devmanaged, remove() is no longer needed.
> 

I think it would be better to add this API as part of a series
that also uses it.

Regards,
Eze