From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757224AbaJIN1A (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2014 09:27:00 -0400 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:52656 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751128AbaJIN0z (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2014 09:26:55 -0400 Message-ID: <54368D16.40404@roeck-us.net> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 06:26:46 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Jones , Catalin Marinas CC: "linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org" , "linux-mips@linux-mips.org" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org" , Linus Walleij , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" , "lguest@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org" , "linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-sh@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , "linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-am33-list@redhat.com" , "linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" , "openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" , "linux-metag@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Samuel Ortiz , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-cris-kernel@axis.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/44] mfd: ab8500-sysctrl: Register with kernel poweroff handler References: <1412659726-29957-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <1412659726-29957-13-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20141007080048.GB25331@lee--X1> <20141009103656.GF17836@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20141009104927.GN20647@lee--X1> In-Reply-To: <20141009104927.GN20647@lee--X1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-CTCH-PVer: 0000001 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020205.54368D1F.0128,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-SenderID: linux@roeck-us.net X-CTCH-SenderID-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalMessages: 56 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSpam: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSuspected: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalConfirmed: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalBulk: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalVirus: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalRecipients: 0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: mailgid no entry from get_relayhosts_entry X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/09/2014 03:49 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2014, Catalin Marinas wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:00:48AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: >>> On Mon, 06 Oct 2014, Guenter Roeck wrote: >>>> --- a/drivers/mfd/ab8500-sysctrl.c >>>> +++ b/drivers/mfd/ab8500-sysctrl.c >>>> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> +static int ab8500_power_off(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long unused1, >>>> + void *unused2) >>>> { >>>> sigset_t old; >>>> sigset_t all; >>>> @@ -34,11 +36,6 @@ static void ab8500_power_off(void) >>>> struct power_supply *psy; >>>> int ret; >>>> >>>> - if (sysctrl_dev == NULL) { >>>> - pr_err("%s: sysctrl not initialized\n", __func__); >>>> - return; >>>> - } >>> >>> Can you explain the purpose of this change please? >> >> I guess it's because the sysctrl_dev is already initialised when >> registering the power_off handler, so there isn't a way to call the >> above function with a NULL sysctrl_dev. Probably even with the original >> code you didn't need this check (after some race fix in >> ab8500_sysctrl_remove but races is one of the things Guenter's patches >> try to address). > > Sounds reasonable, although I think this change should be part of > another patch. > Sure, no problem. I'll split this into two patches. Since we are at it, any idea what to do with the restart function in the same file ? It is not used anywhere. Guenter