linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: of: Add of_node

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 20:08:59 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux@...il.com>
Cc:     lgirdwood@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: of: Add of_node_put() before return in
 function

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 06:41:03PM +0530, Nishka Dasgupta wrote:

> My added code is dropping a reference to search, using of_node_put().
> I'm probably misunderstanding this at some point, but I thought search and
> child are two different nodes? Or am I completely misunderstanding what
> you're explaining?

Doh, sorry - missed that it's a different node (there's a lot of these
get mechanically sent).

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