From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hqemgate14.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.143]:15182 "EHLO hqemgate14.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750957AbcDQRA0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2016 13:00:26 -0400 Message-ID: <5713BE7B.2030408@nvidia.com> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:18:59 +0530 From: Laxman Dewangan MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Cameron , , , , CC: , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: core: Add devm_ APIs for iio_channel_{get,release} References: <1459938668-9180-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <57137AD1.5030902@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <57137AD1.5030902@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 17 April 2016 05:30 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 06/04/16 11:31, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >> Some of kernel driver uses the IIO framework to get the sensor >> value via ADC or IIO HW driver. The client driver get iio channel >> by iio_channel_get() and release it by calling iio_channel_release(). >> >> Add resource managed version (devm_*) of these APIs so that if client >> calls the devm_iio_channel_get() then it need not to release it explicitly, >> it can be done by managed device framework when driver get un-binded. >> >> This reduces the code in error path and also need of .remove callback in >> some cases. >> >> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan > Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git. > I guess the thermal driver use case will hit a cycle or so behind this. > Thanks for applying this. Yes, thermal driver will use this in future release. This is to avoid any syncup between subsystem.