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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:50:54 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gpio: Add reference counting for non-exclusive GPIOs
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:53 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> I suspect maybe the lesser evil is to bite the bullet, invent
> gpiod_get_from_of_node() which is the missing API (we currently
> only have devm_gpiod_get_from_of_node()) and simply
> fix up the converted regulator drivers to avoid devm_*
> retrieveal in the same manner as wm8994 (the already
> queued patch). This will make the regulator core own the
> refcounting as it does today.
>
> It's a bit unelegant but it's very straight forward and I know
> I can fix it up qucikly.

I cooked a series like this, just taking it for a ride on the
0day build server before sending it out.

Yours,
Linus Walleij