On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:16 AM Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 16:34, Bartosz Golaszewski <b...@bgdev.pl> wrote: >> >> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@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 <bgolaszew...@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? Bartosz
