netdev - Re: [PATCH] Change request_irq() to use struct net

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Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:28:16 +0530
From:	Prashant Shah <pshah.mumbai@...il.com>
To:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
Cc:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	whiteheadm@....org, Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mwhitehe@...hat.com, kernel-mentors@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change request_irq() to use struct net_device *dev->name

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:33:24PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>>    It's also called managed device API. In fact, I've never heard it
>> named devres API.

If I understood it correctly it has to just calls
devm_request_region() with the struct device pointer and there are no
deallocation functions to call ? It manages deallocation on it own.

Regards.
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