Re: [PATCH] Minor change to platform_device_register_simple prototype

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:18:40PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 12/7/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:23:11PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On 12/7/05, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:59:09PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov > > I have started moving drivers from the "_simple" interface and I found
> > > > > that I'm missing platform_device_del that would complement
> > > > > platform_device_add. Would you object to having such a function, like
> > > > > we do for other sysfs objects? With it one can write somthing like
> > > > > this:
> > > >
> > > > Greg and myself discussed that, and we decided that it was adding
> > > > unnecessary complexity to the interface.  Maybe Greg's view has
> > > > changed?
> > > >
> > >
> > > How do you write error handling path without the _del function if
> > > platform_device_add is not the last call? you can't call
> > > platform_device_unregister() and then platform_device_put(). And I
> > > don't like to take extra references in error path or assign the
> > > pointer to NULL in teh middle of unwinding...
> >
> > The example code in the commit comments contains a complete example of
> > registering a platform device, and cleaning up should something go
> > wrong with that process.
> >
> 
> The problem with what you proposing is that one will have to code 2
> cleanup code paths - one when platform_device_add fails (in this case
> you just call platform_device_put) and another one when
> platfrom_device_add succeeds but something else fails. In the second
> case you have to use platfrom_device_unregister to release resources
> but can't use platform_device_put because the device will most likely
> be released by plaform_device_unregister. I prefer having single
> cleanup code path, like most other drivers have.
> 
> > Unregistering is just a matter of calling platform_device_unregister().
> > An unregister call is a del + put in exactly the same way as it is
> > throughout the rest of the driver model.
> >
> 
> Yes, and it works just fine everywhere except in initialization code
> when you need to jump in the middle of _del + _put sequence.

So, if you had _del, would it work easier for you?  I just objected to
it if it wasn't necessary.  I didn't want to add functions that aren't
used by anyone, but if is needed, I don't see a problem with it.

thanks,

greg k-h