Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932088AbcDGLxx (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:53:53 -0400 Received: from hqemgate14.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.143]:9430 "EHLO hqemgate14.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755504AbcDGLxv (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:53:51 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp08.nvidia.com on Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:52:18 -0700 Message-ID: <570647BE.2020203@nvidia.com> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 17:12:54 +0530 From: Laxman Dewangan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Jones CC: , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] mfd: Add devm_ apis for mfd_add_devices and mfd_release_devices References: <1459856912-17859-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <1459856912-17859-2-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <20160407104403.GZ3323@x1> <57063A12.4080200@nvidia.com> <20160407114250.GA3323@x1> In-Reply-To: <20160407114250.GA3323@x1> X-Originating-IP: [10.19.65.30] X-ClientProxiedBy: DRUKMAIL102.nvidia.com (10.25.59.20) To bgmail102.nvidia.com (10.25.59.11) 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: 787 Lines: 19 On Thursday 07 April 2016 05:12 PM, Lee Jones wrote: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2016, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > > + * Normally this function will not need to be called and the resource > + * management code will ensure that the resource is freed. >>> Then what is the purpose of providing it? Do you have a user? >> To have pair of release. I have not seen the usage of most of >> devm_*_release() function other than devm_kfree(). > Unless you have a need or a user, I would omit this for now. > OK, I will remove it. BTW, I have collected all acks and reviewed by which I got from this series. So I can send this series with all acks/reviewed by. If you want me to provide the git location for these patchs then I can do it also. For this I will need base from where I need to take branch.