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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] drm: provide device-refcount
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:01:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140221070144.GA22574@ulmo.nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391004120-687-6-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com>


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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:01:52PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c
[...]
> @@ -486,12 +490,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_dev_alloc);
>   * @dev: DRM device to free
>   *
>   * Free a DRM device that has previously been allocated via drm_dev_alloc().
> - * You must not use kfree() instead or you will leak memory.
> - *
> - * This must not be called once the device got registered. Use drm_put_dev()
> - * instead, which then calls drm_dev_free().
> + * This may not be called directly, you must use drm_dev_ref() and
> + * drm_dev_unref() to gain and drop references to the object.
>   */
> -void drm_dev_free(struct drm_device *dev)
> +static void drm_dev_free(struct drm_device *dev)

With the function turning static it can't be called from anywhere else
but this file, so perhaps the last sentence of the comment can now go
away as well?

Thierry

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-29 14:01 [PATCH 00/13] DRM Reliable Minor-IDs David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 01/13] drm: group dev-lifetime related members David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 02/13] drm: skip redundant minor-lookup in open path David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 03/13] drm: remove unused DRM_MINOR_UNASSIGNED David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 04/13] drm: turn DRM_MINOR_* into enum David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 05/13] drm: provide device-refcount David Herrmann
2014-02-12 13:25   ` Daniel Vetter
2014-02-12 14:44     ` David Herrmann
2014-02-12 16:26       ` Daniel Vetter
2014-02-12 16:40         ` Greg KH
2014-02-12 17:48           ` David Herrmann
2014-02-12 18:31             ` Daniel Vetter
2014-02-12 18:38             ` Greg KH
2014-02-21  7:01   ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2014-02-24 13:51     ` David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 06/13] drm: add minor-lookup/release helpers David Herrmann
2014-02-21  7:09   ` Thierry Reding
2014-02-21  7:34     ` David Herrmann
2014-02-21  7:37       ` Thierry Reding
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 07/13] drm: allocate minors early David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 08/13] drm: move drm_put_minor() to drm_minor_free() David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 09/13] drm: rename drm_unplug/get_minor() to drm_minor_register/unregister() David Herrmann
2014-02-21  7:21   ` Thierry Reding
2014-02-24 13:52     ` David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 10/13] drm: remove unneeded #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUGFS David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 11/13] drm: remove redundant minor->device field David Herrmann
2014-02-12 13:36   ` Daniel Vetter
2014-02-21  7:30     ` Thierry Reding
2014-02-21 20:07       ` David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 12/13] drm: make minor-IDs reliable David Herrmann
2014-01-29 14:02 ` [PATCH 13/13] drm: remove redundant minor->index David Herrmann
2014-02-21  7:30 ` [PATCH 00/13] DRM Reliable Minor-IDs Thierry Reding

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