linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients

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Date:   Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:21:50 +0100
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Cc:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
        linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients

On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 10:26:15PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> There are no in-tree users of these helpers anymore, and there
> shouldn't. Most use cases went away once the driver model started to
> refcount for us. There have been users like the media subsystem, but
> they all switched to better refcounting methods meanwhile. Media did
> this in 2008. Last user (IPMI) left 2018. Remove this cruft.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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