Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients

Luca Ceresoli
2019-11-12T07:59:41Z

Hi,

On 09/11/19 22:26, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> There are no in-tree users of these helpers anymore, and there
> shouldn't. Most use cases went away once the driver model started to
> refcount for us. There have been users like the media subsystem, but
> they all switched to better refcounting methods meanwhile. Media did
> this in 2008. Last user (IPMI) left 2018. Remove this cruft.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

[Tested on older kernel + TI serdes patches]
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>

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Luca