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From:   Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc:     Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>,
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Subject: mfd: syscon: syscon_node_to_regmap() and device_node refcounting
Date:   Sun, 14 Oct 2018 00:02:39 +0300
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Hello,

Could you please clarify why it is safe to store device_node pointer
in of_syscon_register()? Who is responsible to make sure that 
it is not disappear?

static struct syscon *of_syscon_register(struct device_node *np)
{
...
	syscon->np = np;
}


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Thank you,
Alexey Khoroshilov
Linux Verification Center, ISPRAS
web: http://linuxtesting.org