From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laxman Dewangan Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] mfd: Add devm_ apis for mfd_add_devices and mfd_release_devices Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:12:54 +0530 Message-ID: <570647BE.2020203@nvidia.com> References: <1459856912-17859-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <1459856912-17859-2-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <20160407104403.GZ3323@x1> <57063A12.4080200@nvidia.com> <20160407114250.GA3323@x1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160407114250.GA3323@x1> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Lee Jones Cc: corbet@lwn.net, andreas.werner@men.de, tony@atomide.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 07 April 2016 05:12 PM, Lee Jones wrote: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2016, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > > + * Normally this function will not need to be called and the resource > + * management code will ensure that the resource is freed. >>> Then what is the purpose of providing it? Do you have a user? >> To have pair of release. I have not seen the usage of most of >> devm_*_release() function other than devm_kfree(). > Unless you have a need or a user, I would omit this for now. > OK, I will remove it. BTW, I have collected all acks and reviewed by which I got from this series. So I can send this series with all acks/reviewed by. If you want me to provide the git location for these patchs then I can do it also. For this I will need base from where I need to take branch.