Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] ASoC: Intel: bytcht_cx2072x: Replace open coded acpi_dev_put()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Jan 04 2023 - 11:49:46 EST


On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 08:15:27AM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 1/4/23 04:29, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 09:08:20AM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> >> On 1/2/23 14:30, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >>> Instead of calling put_device(&adev->dev) where adev is a pointer
> >>> to an ACPI device, use specific call, i.e. acpi_dev_put().
> >>>
> >>> Also move it out of the conditional to make it more visible in case
> >>> some other code will be added which may use that pointer. We need
> >>> to keep a reference as long as we use the pointer.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Answering for the series: we should make the change across all Intel
> >> machine drivers. I see at least four cases that were missed
> >>
> >> bytcr_rt5640.c: put_device(&adev->dev);
> >> bytcr_rt5651.c: put_device(&adev->dev);
> >> bytcr_wm5102.c: put_device(&adev->dev);
> >> sof_es8336.c: put_device(&adev->dev);
> >
> > Aren't they (they all problematic, btw) covered by the fixes series
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230102203014.16041-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?
>
> They are indeed, but if you group AMD-related patches with Intel ones,
> it's only human for reviewers to skip the thread entirely, even more so
> when catching up with email on January 3 :-)

Ah, I will try to remember to split also by platform (there are not many that's
why I decided to group them by the problem type only).

> For this series
>
> Acked-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you and HNY!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko