From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0FF8CC4332F for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2023 10:45:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=DjDfaqKdcHiMBQRa2P/UkVVcQFmtXC4qq1G4YE/SLAE=; b=0HJc2LoQ/yUdLH oQjtVhs/bobWbwq6ZJ0JWNZsaFpJvPbvlNschsCy4TT8MS6oMt+3pM/pmJqd6kNMU0ZRhYjqugCSH WzbrWCTzW2RgO8mxZk78w3IZjKc5oGpZQb3o5tjm7wG6EOEo50qXcNIV9L1QxA3I7hWNcJyxDXQP1 1MeF8IVu5PvgauSLI9Ykge4N/GlPv9ppTL2Dr1y2pfB7E8tQno4yU4mAgH+ji+rciXgKlKhL+k6zG dDi7UFSNSkt6ws9bjdvW1lxLeZtedZcRNsn81/r0FJJGXA2MEQPDAk3IQ3VP+9D/JEusQo4BTDhK3 wspI0v7FSUtZXhhIMugA==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1pD1Fq-008UeQ-Ie; Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:44:18 +0000 Received: from pandora.armlinux.org.uk ([2001:4d48:ad52:32c8:5054:ff:fe00:142]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1pD14G-008O7p-Tq for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:32:23 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=armlinux.org.uk; s=pandora-2019; h=Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=qqH/Me3GhLyp/wEo5gWkk1CCi9uaf7ZM+4ekDHBfv/o=; b=MzSwVCMy6Sq7bl8rj3fXSOX+wo CwdlM35qa0ksQvSjj6nd+QzXei7uCaw/SNr/gvTxC+3EaH0dHXoA8DqTsGNAEdPTh0r+voNedE5rt 4R16DXgUj2sLwSqPjfJef3JTByMVybwdUvViL5Ppxp0C3rUrgW9SMkoeQFxVfeYLh0b673Q+aodWe cOPhnEG7byynZn9fSJELCi1OyhB4wq8PXYxfHiQCKCOs9kv+sgFXPslo3hEM/3LtJXaDSLzf4Jtvw AFYlolxEqjqAj4KNJ3uh+RwlIKHyVnXxrIWxVileSzrmTH4mlUvhnNBaITd17Qntda6otI79i8O1z j4VPAg1g==; Received: from shell.armlinux.org.uk ([fd8f:7570:feb6:1:5054:ff:fe00:4ec]:35964) by pandora.armlinux.org.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1pD123-0006Jo-NA; Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:30:03 +0000 Received: from linux by shell.armlinux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1pD11z-0002yH-Ev; Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:29:59 +0000 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 10:29:59 +0000 From: "Russell King (Oracle)" To: Hector Martin Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla , Bartosz Golaszewski , Gaosheng Cui , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Maxime Ripard Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Fix a whole host of nvmem registration/cleanup issues Message-ID: References: <7f6b2a9a-1ffc-424f-2287-5934cf653bde@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230104_023221_164626_0330E028 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 32.83 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 10:15:14AM +0900, Hector Martin wrote: > On 04/01/2023 06.15, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: > > Hi Russell, > > > > > > On 03/01/2023 16:58, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This series fixes a whole host of nvmem registration/error cleanup > >> issues that have been identified by both Hector and myself. It is a > >> substantial rework of my original patch fixing the first problem. > >> > >> The first most obvious problem is the race between nvmem registration > >> and use, which leads to sporadic failures of drivers to probe at boot > >> time. > >> > >> While fixing this, it has been noticed that a recent fix to check the > >> return value of dev_set_name() introduced a new bug where wp_gpio was > >> not being put in that newly introduced error path. > >> > >> Then there's a fix for a previous fix which itself purports to fix > >> another bug, but results in the allocated ID being leaked. Fix for a > >> fix for a fix is not good! > >> > >> Then there's an error in the docbook documentation for wp_gpio (it's > >> listed as wp-gpio instead) but as nothing seems to set wp_gpio, we > >> might as well get rid of it - which also solves the issue that we > >> call gpiod_put() on this whether we own it or not. > >> > >> Lastly, there's a fix for yet another spurious white-space in this > >> code, one of what seems to be a long history of past white-space > >> fixes. > >> > >> These patches have been individually build-tested in the order of > >> posting, but not run-time tested except for the entire series. > > > > > > thanks for fixing these issues, I have applied these after fixing the > > subject on all the patches, as it ended up with email ids in subject. > > Right. I see none of the issues you two lectured me about actually > mattered, it was all for show, and this isn't getting backported anyway. > > Good job you two. The day I finally rage quit the kernel after enough of > this nonsense and make a big dossier of just how fucked up the kernel > maintainer community's attitude is, I will be sure to use this as an > example. > > That day is not today though. But I certainly won't be upstreaming any > more patches to nvmem. You've really little clue, have you. I really don't see that you'll *ever* get apple hardware properly functional in mainline. Good luck maintaining a fork of the kernel for ever into the future. I've had enough of you. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 40Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last! _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel