Re: [PATCH 1/8] regmap: Add generic non-memory mapped registeraccess API

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:45:53AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 02:14 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I like init, especially considering the plan to add cache support as
> > there's more work in setting that up once you start doing the advanced
> > caches.

> If you take a look at other kernel apis _alloc is usually used if the structure
> is allocated (and initialized) inside the function and _init is used when the
> function initializes an already existing structure. And it also matches better

That more applies to split alloc/init models - here there's a single
operation that does both.  To me alloc() generally means that it just
allocates a structure and leaves initialization still to be done while.

> with regmap_free.

That's true.
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