Re: two patches - request for comments

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> No. class_find_device was written for lcd_find_device() and
> backlight_find_device() (framebuffer devices use them). On the other hand,
> the driver that registers the backlight device doesn't have a pointer to the
> class device (well, the lcd_register_device could return it). Since the
> lcd/backlight names are unique anyway, I don't see any problems with that, and
> moreover, it is *registered* by giving it a name, why it should be
> unregistered in a different way?


Typical Linux usage to an item being registered is

	ptr = alloc_foo()
	register_foo(ptr)
	unregister_foo(ptr)
	free_foo()

It is quite unusual to unregister based on name.  Pointers are far more 
likely to be unique, and the programmer is far less likely to screw up 
the unregister operation.

	Jeff