linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 7/7] nvmem: add a comment about resource management

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Date:   Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:22:18 +0100
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Khouloud Touil <ktouil@...libre.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 7/7] nvmem: add a comment about resource management

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>

The fact that part of the resources associated with the nvmem resources
is freed by the release() callback in device_type caused me some
confusion. Add a comment explaining that to nvmem_register().

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 40fe5913c264..6e28f3fddf53 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -397,6 +397,11 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config)
 
 	dev_dbg(&nvmem->dev, "Registering nvmem device %s\n", config->name);
 
+	/*
+	 * After calling device_add() we can stop freeing previously
+	 * allocated resources - they'll be freed from nvmem_release()
+	 * when the device's reference count drops to 0.
+	 */
 	rval = device_add(&nvmem->dev);
 	if (rval)
 		goto err_put_device;
-- 
2.25.0