linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v10 2/7] i3c: master: use i3c_master

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Date:   Tue, 8 Dec 2020 05:47:51 +0000
From:   Parshuram Raju Thombare <pthombar@...ence.com>
To:     Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
CC:     "alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com" <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        "slongerbeam@...il.com" <slongerbeam@...il.com>,
        "vitor.soares@...opsys.com" <vitor.soares@...opsys.com>,
        "praneeth@...com" <praneeth@...com>,
        Milind Parab <mparab@...ence.com>,
        "linux-i3c@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-i3c@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v10 2/7] i3c: master: use i3c_master_register only for
 main master

>This looks a bit confusing. Here you're rolling back detailss in
>i3c_primary_master_register() that were factored out in
>i3c_master_init(). If i3c_master_init() is successful, then you
>shouldn't be undoing its things openly in i3c_primary_master_register().
>Instead, there should be another function that does the reverse of
>i3c_master_init() here.

Every function do its cleanup in case of failures.
And if any failure occur after successful i3c_master_init(), we have
function i3c_master_bus_cleanup() which does the major cleanup.

Regards,
Parshuram Thombare