linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] media: pci: intel: ivsc: improve device reference counting in mei

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Message-ID: <078e025b-e8eb-43fa-b3ed-3d47cb730530@web.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:20:47 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: make24@...as.ac.cn, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
 Bingbu Cao <bingbu.cao@...el.com>, Lixu Zhang <lixu.zhang@...el.com>,
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
 Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@...ux.intel.com>,
 Wentong Wu <wentongw@...zon.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] media: pci: intel: ivsc: improve device reference
 counting in mei_ace driver

…
> properly balance the reference count. Additionally, the redundant

                                                          misplaced?


> put_device() in mei_ace_remove() is removed.

               call?


See also:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17-rc7#n94


Under which circumstances would you become interested to apply an attribute
like “__free(put_device)”?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.17-rc7/source/include/linux/device.h#L1180

Regards,
Markus