Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757734Ab3GYSdf (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:33:35 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f53.google.com ([209.85.215.53]:60757 "EHLO mail-la0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757661Ab3GYSdb (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:33:31 -0400 Message-ID: <51F16F74.3070503@cogentembedded.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:33:24 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: Cogent Embedded User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Shevchenko CC: whiteheadm@acm.org, Prashant Shah , Ryan Mallon , netdev , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , mwhitehe@redhat.com, kernel-mentors@selenic.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change request_irq() to use struct net_device *dev->name References: <1374646199-9398-1-git-send-email-pshah.mumbai@gmail.com> <51F07489.7010404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 23 Hello. On 07/25/2013 10:31 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> Andy, >> I can't find a single example of a devres_* call in >> drivers/net/ethernet/*. Does any networking code exist that we can look at >> as an example for conversion to the devres API? > devres API usually means managed version of the functions that used > mostly at probe() stage. > For example, devm_*() or pcim_*() calls. It's also called managed device API. In fact, I've never heard it named devres API. WBR, Sergei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/