Re: [PATCH v4 07/11] iio: amplifiers: ad8366: refactor device resource management

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:30:44 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 12:10:11PM +0000, Rodrigo Alencar wrote:
> > On 26/02/10 10:05PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:  
> > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 07:42:07PM +0000, Rodrigo Alencar via B4 Relay wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Adhere modern device resource management with the following:
> > > > - Voltage regulator managed and enabled internally;
> > > > - IIO device registration handled with devm_iio_device_register();
> > > > - removal of goto's from the probe function;
> > > > - ad8366_remove() removed as it is not needed anymore;
> > > > 
> > > > With the drop of goto's dev_err_probe() is used to report probe errors.  
> > > 
> > > I think the regulator change should be split and go before the previous patch,
> > > because that one affects the ordering in the error path and remove stage.  
> > 
> > OK, that can be done, but the same way,
> > the error check would change as well as the dev_err_probe() args, not seeing
> > much benefit there as the same lines will have to be touched anyways.  
> 
> The point is to range the problems and target the more serious one first.
> I consider the wrong ordering, (mis)use of devm_*() are in a priority to
> just a simple cleanup.
> 
Took me a minute to see what was meant here, but having realized original
code unwound as power off then reset when it had setup as power on then reset,
I agree entirely with Andy that should be fixed in the earlier patch.

Thanks,

Jonathan