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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chris Zhong <zyw@rock-chips.com>,
	kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: rk808: make better use of the gpiod API
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:41:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150721144100.GU11162@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150721143524.GD9981@pengutronix.de>

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:35:24PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 10:09:32PM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> > The function looks empty so it can be removed entirely.

> I assumed that not having a remove function makes the device not
> detachable. Not sure about that.

No, of course not - the remove function is completely optional.

> Looking at the code I found that not having a remove function can yield
> surprises, though. If your driver has a probe but no remove function the
> platform bus glue calls

> 	dev_pm_domain_attach(_dev, true);

> at probe time, but not

> 	dev_pm_domain_detach(_dev, true);

> at remove. I admit I don't know about that dev_pm_domain stuff, but it
> looks wrong to only have one but not the other. Greg?

That looks like a bug, yes.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-21 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-21  3:29 linux-next: build failure after merge of the gpio tree Stephen Rothwell
2015-07-21  6:59 ` [PATCH] regulator: rk808: make better use of the gpiod API Uwe Kleine-König
2015-07-21  9:56   ` Linus Walleij
2015-07-21 11:04     ` Mark Brown
2015-07-21 14:21       ` Uwe Kleine-König
     [not found]         ` <1437489985-1362-1-git-send-email-uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
2015-07-21 14:46           ` [PATCH v2 2/2] " Uwe Kleine-König
2015-07-22  2:21             ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-07-21 13:09   ` [PATCH] " Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-07-21 14:35     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2015-07-21 14:41       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2015-07-22  0:13         ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2015-07-22  7:13           ` Uwe Kleine-König

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