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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:16:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
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On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 10:26 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> wrote:
> There are no in-tree users of these helpers anymore, and there
> shouldn't. Most use cases went away once the driver model started to
> refcount for us. There have been users like the media subsystem, but
> they all switched to better refcounting methods meanwhile. Media did
> this in 2008. Last user (IPMI) left 2018. Remove this cruft.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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