From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>,
Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "mfd: cros_ec: Use devm_kzalloc for private data"
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 08:00:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704070008.GE20176@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180620213033.100455-2-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> This reverts commit 3aa2177e47878f7e7616da8a2050c44f22301b6e.
>
> Linux device objects are refcounted and thus should not be allocated
> with devm API as they may outlive the timeframe of another device being
> bound to a driver.
> ---
> drivers/mfd/cros_ec_dev.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
For my own reference:
Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-04 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-20 21:30 [PATCH 1/2] Revert "mfd: cros_ec: Remove unused __remove function" Dmitry Torokhov
2018-06-20 21:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] Revert "mfd: cros_ec: Use devm_kzalloc for private data" Dmitry Torokhov
2018-07-04 7:00 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2018-07-04 6:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "mfd: cros_ec: Remove unused __remove function" Lee Jones
2018-07-04 15:16 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-07-04 16:11 ` Lee Jones
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