From: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>,
linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:59:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90246cbb-5013-0144-d2a3-ba30b745a86d@lucaceresoli.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191109212615.9254-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Hi,
On 09/11/19 22:26, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> There are no in-tree users of these helpers anymore, and there
> shouldn't. Most use cases went away once the driver model started to
> refcount for us. There have been users like the media subsystem, but
> they all switched to better refcounting methods meanwhile. Media did
> this in 2008. Last user (IPMI) left 2018. Remove this cruft.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
[Tested on older kernel + TI serdes patches]
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
--
Luca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-09 21:26 [PATCH] i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients Wolfram Sang
2019-11-11 10:27 ` Niklas Söderlund
2019-11-11 19:54 ` Jean Delvare
2019-11-12 7:59 ` Luca Ceresoli [this message]
2019-11-12 8:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-11-17 7:21 ` Wolfram Sang
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