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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>,
	Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>,
	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	Han Xu <han.xu@freescale.com>, Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/11] mtd: assign mtd->dev.of_node when creating partition devices
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:58:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151120025842.GT64635@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151112142220.374154b7@bbrezillon>

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:22:20PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:15:50 -0800
> Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:
> > IOW, I think we can grab the reference in add_mtd_device() and drop it
> > in del_mtd_device(). This would handle both the partition and
> > non-partition case the same.
> 
> Hm, actually I think we need it. When you iterate over child nodes with
> for_each_child_of_node(), the node is released (of_node_put() is
> called) after each iteration. While this is not a problem for mtd
> device registration (because the controller usually retain the
> reference when add_mtd_device() is called), this is not true for the
> partitions. And if the partitions are ever defined using an overlay,
> this can be a problem.

Yep.

> To sum-up, I think we should retain the node reference until
> add_mtd_device() has retained it, so maybe we should have a ->cleanup()
> function in mtd part parsers.

OK. I'll drop my patch and send out my ->cleanup() stuff instead, so you
can patch on top of that.

Brian

      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-20  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-31  3:33 [PATCH v2 00/11] mtd: migrate 'of_node' handling to core, not in mtd_part_parser_data Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] mtd: add get/set of_node/flash_node helpers Brian Norris
2015-11-01 23:27   ` Boris Brezillon
2015-11-02 21:12     ` Brian Norris
2015-11-11 21:46   ` Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] mtd: ofpart: grab device tree node directly from master device node Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] mtd: {nand,spi-nor}: assign MTD of_node Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] mtd: nand: convert to nand_set_flash_node() Brian Norris
2015-10-31 15:17   ` Marek Vasut
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] mtd: spi-nor: convert to spi_nor_{get,set}_flash_node() Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] mtd: nand: drop unnecessary partition parser data Brian Norris
2015-11-01 22:32   ` Boris Brezillon
2015-11-02 21:00     ` Brian Norris
2015-11-11 23:46       ` Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] mtd: spi-nor: " Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] mtd: spi-nor: drop flash_node field Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] mtd: drop unnecessary partition parser data Brian Norris
2015-10-31 15:26   ` Marek Vasut
2015-11-01  0:11     ` Brian Norris
2015-11-05  8:49   ` Boris Brezillon
2015-11-11 23:47     ` Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] mtd: ofpart: drop 'of_node' " Brian Norris
2015-10-31  3:33 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] mtd: physmap_of: assign parent for the concatenated MTD Brian Norris
2015-11-01  7:59 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] mtd: migrate 'of_node' handling to core, not in mtd_part_parser_data Boris Brezillon
2015-11-01 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 12/11] mtd: nand: convert to nand_get_flash_node() Boris Brezillon
2015-11-11 23:55   ` Brian Norris
2015-11-02  0:38 ` [PATCH v2 13/11] mtd: assign mtd->dev.of_node when creating partition devices Boris Brezillon
2015-11-12  0:15   ` Brian Norris
2015-11-12 13:22     ` Boris Brezillon
2015-11-20  2:58       ` Brian Norris [this message]

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