linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] mfd: mfd-core: Remove usage counting for .{en,dis}able() call-backs

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Message-ID: <20191025145549.GH4568@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:55:49 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     daniel.thompson@...aro.org, arnd@...db.de,
        linus.walleij@...aro.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, baohua@...nel.org,
        stephan@...hold.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] mfd: mfd-core: Remove usage counting for
 .{en,dis}able() call-backs

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> The MFD implementation for reference counting was complex and unnecessary.
> There was only one bona fide user which has now been converted to handle
> the process in a different way. Any future resource protection, shared
> enablement functions should be handed by the parent device, rather than
> through the MFD subsystem API.

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

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