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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] of: of_find_node_by_name - stop dropping reference
 to 'from' node
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:42:23 +1000
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On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 15:35 -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> No.=C2=A0 It is correct for of_find_by_name() to call of_node_put() f=
or
> the from argument.=C2=A0 The callers should be fixed.

I would argue that if everybody makes the same mistake then our
interface is wrong. In that case I wrote it so I think I can plead
guilty to the mistake ;-)

In hindsight, but I don't have the stammina to do a tree-wide change, I
think we should have differenciated:

	of_find_xxx which does *not* drop the reference

	of_find_next_xxx which does

Cheers,
Ben.