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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: "Heiner Kallweit" <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	"Kalle Valo" <kvalo@kernel.org>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
	"Manivannan Sadhasivam" <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
	"Martin Blumenstingl" <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-actions@lists.infradead.org,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: use unmanaged PCI functions in ath9k_pci_owl_loader
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:23:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y19ukuo3.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd66af0c-835e-4222-b362-e2e9cafdeb40@gmail.com>

Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> writes:

> Using the device-managed versions has no benefit here, because
> resources are released as part of the asynchronous fw loading.
>
> Actual reason why I got here is that I was looking for places with
> dubious use of pcim_pin_device().

Could you please expand the commit message to explain what this means in
a bit more detail? That will be helpful to someone who wants to
understand what the difference between these versions is and why this
change makes sense, but who is not that familiar with how these internal
bits are really supposed to work. Someone like myself, in other words :)

-Toke

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-03 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-01 15:30 [PATCH] ath9k: use unmanaged PCI functions in ath9k_pci_owl_loader Heiner Kallweit
2024-04-03 21:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2024-04-04 21:07   ` Heiner Kallweit

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