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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] ASoC: Track which components have
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:07:08 +0100
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On 03/24/2014 12:48 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:40:49PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>
>> My plan is to let it take a pointer to the component itself. I'm just not
>> too sure about the implementation details yet.
>
> The question there is why you'd ever want to only unregister a single
> thing that the device registered.  devm_ does make this a bit more
> academic but still.
>

I you probably wouldn't, but I think it makes the interface cleaner and devm 
doesn't really care whether we store a pointer to the parent device or a 
pointer to the component in the devm data.

- Lars