Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] of: add devm_ functions for populate and depopulate

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 11:48:47 EST


On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:30:24AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:31:25AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Benjamin Gaignard
> >> <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Lots of calls to of_platform_populate() are not unbalanced by a call
> >> > to of_platform_depopulate(). This create issues while drivers are
> >> > bind/unbind.
> >> >
> >> > In way to solve those issues is to add devm_of_platform_populate()
> >> > which will call of_platform_depopulate() when the device is unbound
> >> > from the bus.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > ---
> >> > version 2:
> >> > - simplify function prototype to only keep device as parameter
> >> >
> >> > drivers/of/platform.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> > include/linux/of_platform.h | 11 +++++++
> >> > 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> For this and patch 2:
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Is this an ack for merging both through drm-misc, or should we do a
> > topic-branch dance here?
>
> You can apply it directly.

Ok, this seems like a pretty cool idea, so applied both to drm-misc for
4.12.

Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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