linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 10/17] power: sequencing: implement the pwrseq core

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Message-ID: <20240604174326.GA733165@bhelgaas>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:43:26 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 10/17] power: sequencing: implement the pwrseq core

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 09:03:18PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
> 
> Implement the power sequencing subsystem allowing devices to share
> complex powering-up and down procedures. It's split into the consumer
> and provider parts but does not implement any new DT bindings so that
> the actual power sequencing is never revealed in the DT representation.

> +++ b/drivers/power/sequencing/core.c

> + * Unit - a unit is a discreet chunk of a power sequence. For instance one unit

s/discreet/discrete/

> +static struct pwrseq_unit *pwrseq_unit_incref(struct pwrseq_unit *unit)
> +{
> +	kref_get(&unit->ref);
> +
> +	return unit;
> +}
> +
> +static void pwrseq_unit_release(struct kref *ref);
> +
> +static void pwrseq_unit_decref(struct pwrseq_unit *unit)
> +{
> +	kref_put(&unit->ref, pwrseq_unit_release);
> +}

No existing callers of kref_get() and kref_put() use names that
include "incref" or "decref".  Many include "get" and "put", so maybe
there would be some value in using that pattern?