linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] regmap: Drop unused devm_regmap_*

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Message-ID: <f5ce40f3-e261-43dc-9496-fef609e8be14@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:15:05 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] regmap: Drop unused devm_regmap_*_free() APIs

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 02:43:30PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Besides the fact that currently defined devm_*_free() APIs
> are being unused, it's usually a sign of bad design to call
> such explicitly. Drop them and make people pay more attention
> on the misuse of devm_regmap_*() APIs,

This just seems unhelpful, there's fairly obvious uses for something
like this where we decide we can't actually use some things based on
what we discover during probe.

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