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Message-ID: <56f38e71-7572-55ac-d5ae-dfbe5c2345f7@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:57:36 +0000
From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...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: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] nvmem: add a comment about resource management
On 19/02/2020 09:22, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 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().
I see this patch totally unnecessary!
I expect people creating patch in this area to understand what exactly
they are doing. This is not going to help them in anyway, other than
misleading and re-documenting device_add which is already available at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.5/driver-api/infrastructure.html
thanks,
srini
>
> 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;
>
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