From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Khouloud Touil <ktouil@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gpiolib: use kref in gpio_desc
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:35:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMpxmJXXdmW_2MhUSGYZGy8xWy=oQKgng+cphzU-WDqQUKe=Dw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdY1u2xEFzJPrat73me11wdY9uGCK=FWWWzLkBY505JrUw@mail.gmail.com>
śr., 25 mar 2020 o 12:16 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> napisał(a):
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:44 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
>
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > what is your decision on this? Because if we don't merge this, then we
> > need to make sure nvmem doesn't call gpiod_put() for descriptors it
> > didn't obtain itself and we should probably fix it this week.
>
> I'm simply just overloaded right now, things related to how the world
> looks etc. Also Torvalds writes in Documentation/process/management-style.rst
> that if someone ask you to make a decision, you are screwed :/
>
I see, yeah the times are uncertain for sure. :(
> Your decision is as good as mine, I'm not smarter in any
> way so if it is urgent send me a pull request for the solution that seems best
> to you, I trust you on this.
>
There are no users right now of the broken interface, so I'll just
send a patch with an appropriate comment to Srinivas for the time
being and we can try to fix it in the next release.
Bartosz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-25 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-24 9:41 [PATCH 0/3] gpiolib: add reference counting to GPIO descriptors Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-24 9:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] gpiolib: provide VALIDATE_DESC_PTR() macro Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-24 9:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] gpiolib: use kref in gpio_desc Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-03-05 16:49 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-03-12 10:10 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-12 18:24 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-03-13 8:43 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-13 15:04 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-03-23 8:44 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-03-25 11:16 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-25 11:35 ` Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
2020-03-12 10:35 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-13 14:47 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-03-26 20:50 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-30 14:36 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-14 13:42 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-16 9:50 ` Linus Walleij
2020-02-24 9:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvmem: increase the reference count of a gpio passed over config Bartosz Golaszewski
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