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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/37] [RFC] firmware: arm_scmi: introduce bare get/put
 protocols ops
To:     Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>,
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From:   Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
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Date:   Thu, 7 Jan 2021 09:30:11 -0500
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On 1/6/21 3:15 PM, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> Expose to the SCMI drivers a non managed version of a common protocols API
> based on generic get/put methods and protocol handles.
> 
> All drivers still keep using the old API, no functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
> ---
> These non devres methods are probably not needed, given the devm_ ones are
> already provided and any SCMI driver (user of the API) has surely available
> an scmi_device reference to use in the devm_ flavour...so the RFC

I agree. The protocol devices can use the devm_ flavor.


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Thara