From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752436AbbGVUdY (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:33:24 -0400 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:37445 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbbGVUdW (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:33:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 22:33:19 +0200 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Alessandro Zummo , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] RTC: remove unnecessary device_get() in rtc_device_unregister Message-ID: <20150722203319.GM2853@piout.net> References: <1437433372-15425-1-git-send-email-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <1437433372-15425-2-git-send-email-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1437433372-15425-2-git-send-email-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20/07/2015 at 16:02:50 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote : > Technically the address of rtc->dev can never be NULL, so get_device() > can never fail. Also caller of rtc_device_unregister() supposed to be > the owner of the device and thus have a valid reference. Therefore > call to get_device() is not needed here. > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov > --- > drivers/rtc/class.c | 25 ++++++++++++------------- > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Applied, thanks. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com