linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] revocable: Revocable resource management

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Message-ID: <CAMRc=Medaqr5UPimc8o+VTy=9MgU5p8AXjArisQfBNqi7ktSGg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:27:27 +0100
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...nel.org>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>, Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 
	Linus Walleij <linusw@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	chrome-platform@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, 
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>, 
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>, Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@...ll.ch>, 
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] revocable: Revocable resource management

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri Jan 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM CET, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index a671e3d4e8be..fd683c62012a 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -22517,6 +22517,13 @@ F:   include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
> >  F:   kernel/rseq.c
> >  F:   tools/testing/selftests/rseq/
> >
> > +REVOCABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
> > +M:   Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>
> > +L:   linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > +S:   Maintained
> > +F:   drivers/base/revocable.c
> > +F:   include/linux/revocable.h
>
> NIT: I think we should add this include to the DRIVER CORE entry as well.

FWIW: I'm not even sure drivers/base/ is the right place for this.
Except for a few devm_ helpers, nothing here is inherently tied into
the driver model This could be useful outside of device drivers and I
would suggest to put it under lib/ with devres factored out into a
separate source file.

Bartosz