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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Add devres versions of regulator_enable/disable
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:07:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812110719.GE4592@sirena.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANhBUQ09+q9_=7nMs63w4KRLGOhW1=z-AnuwOzAnUrWRY6uC6A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:44:45AM +0800, Chuhong Yuan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:11 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > I'm not super keen on managed versions of these functions since they're
> > very likely to cause reference counting issues between the probe/remove
> > path and the suspend/resume path which aren't obvious from the code, I'm
> > especially worried about double frees on release.

> I find that 29 of 31 cases I found call regulator_disable() only when encounter
> probe failure or in .remove.
> So I think the devm versions of regulator_enable/disable() will not cause big
> problems.

There's way more drivers using regulators than that...

> I even found a driver to forget to disable regulator when encounter
> probe failure,
> which is drivers/iio/adc/ti-adc128s052.c.
> And a devm version of regulator_enable() can prevent such mistakes.

Yes, it's useful for that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-09  3:03 Chuhong Yuan
2019-08-09 15:11 ` Mark Brown
2019-08-10  1:44   ` Chuhong Yuan
2019-08-12 11:07     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2019-08-12 12:51       ` Chuhong Yuan
2019-08-12 14:19         ` Chuhong Yuan

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