netdev - Re: [PATCH lora-next 02/10] net: lora: add methods for devm registration

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Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2018 23:25:15 +0200
From:   Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
To:     Ben Whitten <ben.whitten@...il.com>
Cc:     starnight@...cu.edu.tw, hasnain.virk@....com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ben Whitten <ben.whitten@...rdtech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH lora-next 02/10] net: lora: add methods for devm
 registration

Am 07.08.2018 um 19:32 schrieb Ben Whitten:
> From: Ben Whitten <ben.whitten@...rdtech.com>
> 
> Follow the devm model so that we can avoid lengthy unwind code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Whitten <ben.whitten@...rdtech.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/lora/dev.c   | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/lora/dev.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/lora/dev.c b/drivers/net/lora/dev.c
> index 8c01106..69a8b52 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/lora/dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/lora/dev.c
> @@ -84,6 +84,26 @@ void free_loradev(struct net_device *dev)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_loradev);
>  
> +static void devm_lora_unregister(struct device *dev, void *res)
> +{
> +	free_loradev(*(struct net_device **)res);

Suggest to use a variable.

> +}
> +
> +int devm_lora_register_netdev(struct device *dev, struct net_device *net)

Nice idea, but why a separate registration function? Suggest to instead
introduce devm_alloc_loradev(). If you then reorder those two patches to
the front of the series, I'll queue them immediately.

Thanks,
Andreas

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