Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.29-rc7 regulator-next] regulator: refcount fixes
From: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:56:17 +0000
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On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:43 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> Fix some refcounting issues in the regulator framework, supporting
> regulator_disable() for regulators that were enabled at boot time
> via machine constraints:
> 
>  - Update those regulators' usecounts after enabling, so they
>    can cleanly be disabled at that level.
> 
>  - Remove the problematic per-consumer usecount, so there's
>    only one level of enable/disable.
> 
> Buggy consumers could notice different bug symptoms.  The main
> example would be refcounting bugs; also, any (out-of-tree) users
> of the experimental regulator_set_optimum_mode() stuff which
> don't call it when they're done using a regulator.
> 
> This is a net minor codeshrink.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---

Applied.

Thanks

Liam

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