From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] rtc: rework rtc_register_device() resource management
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 13:22:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201127132228.GV2455276@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMpxmJXa8L0TaeENeYsypmgfkabdP8pH6H6iniwmy0KJs8w4Pg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:16 AM Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 16:34, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> >>
> >> rtc_register_device() is a managed interface but it doesn't use devres
> >> by itself - instead it marks an rtc_device as "registered" and the devres
> >> callback for devm_rtc_allocate_device() takes care of resource release.
> >>
> >> This doesn't correspond with the design behind devres where managed
> >> structures should not be aware of being managed. The correct solution
> >> here is to register a separate devres callback for unregistering the
> >> device.
> >>
> >> While at it: rename rtc_register_device() to devm_rtc_register_device()
> >> and add it to the list of managed interfaces in devres.rst. This way we
> >> can avoid any potential confusion of driver developers who may expect
> >> there to exist a corresponding unregister function.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> >> ---
> >> .../driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst | 1 +
> >> arch/alpha/kernel/rtc.c | 2 +-
> >> drivers/mfd/menelaus.c | 2 +-
> >
> >
> > This patch should have been sent to and Acked by MFD too.
> >
>
> Sorry Lee, I missed the fact that there were changes outside of
> drivers/rtc/. Other than skipping the MFD maintainer - do you see
> anything wrong in that bit?
No real harm done.
The patch looks fine from an MFD standpoint.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-27 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-09 16:34 [PATCH 0/8] rtc: rework resource management Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 1/8] rtc: omap: use devm_pinctrl_register() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 2/8] Revert "rtc: sc27xx: Always read normal alarm when registering RTC device" Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-17 21:23 ` Alexandre Belloni
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 3/8] Documentation: list RTC devres helpers in devres.rst Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 4/8] rtc: nvmem: remove nvram ABI Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 5/8] rtc: add devm_ prefix to rtc_nvmem_register() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 6/8] rtc: nvmem: emit an error message when nvmem registration fails Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 7/8] rtc: rework rtc_register_device() resource management Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-17 21:35 ` Alexandre Belloni
2020-11-18 8:13 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
[not found] ` <CAF2Aj3inp8=dn9xuc8f3uJbL+m5LH7W3BDoOeZyiiOupmbfgOw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-11-27 9:23 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-27 13:22 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2020-11-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 8/8] rtc: shrink devm_rtc_allocate_device() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-11-17 22:57 ` [PATCH 0/8] rtc: rework resource management Alexandre Belloni
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