linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] iio: light: stk3310: Implement vdd supply and power it off during suspend

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:19:24 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To: Aren <aren@...cevolution.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, 
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>, 
	Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, 
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Ondrej Jirman <megi@....cz>, 
	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, 
	linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, phone-devel@...r.kernel.org, 
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev, 
	Willow Barraco <contact@...lowbarraco.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] iio: light: stk3310: Implement vdd supply and power
 it off during suspend

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 8:50 PM Aren <aren@...cevolution.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 06:56:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 6:06 PM Aren <aren@...cevolution.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 05:04:53PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM Aren Moynihan <aren@...cevolution.org> wrote:

..

> > > > I forgot to check the order of freeing resources, be sure you have no
> > > > devm_*() releases happening before this call.
> > >
> > > If I understand what you're saying, this should be fine. The driver just
> > > uses devm to clean up acquired resources after remove is called. Or am I
> > > missing something and resources could be freed before calling
> > > stk3310_remove?
> >
> > I'm not objecting to that. The point here is that the resources should
> > be freed in the reversed order. devm-allocated resources are deferred
> > to be freed after the explicit driver ->remove() callback. At the end
> > it should not interleave with each other, i.o.w. it should be
> > probe: devm followed by non-devm
> > remove: non-devm only.
>
> I think what you're describing is already the case, with the exception
> of parts of the probe function not changed in this patch mixing
> acquiring resources through devm with configuring the device.

Okay, then we are fine!

> I hope I'm not being dense, thanks for the clarification

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko