Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:18:59 +0530 | From | Laxman Dewangan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: core: Add devm_ APIs for iio_channel_{get,release} |
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On Sunday 17 April 2016 05:30 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 06/04/16 11:31, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >> Some of kernel driver uses the IIO framework to get the sensor >> value via ADC or IIO HW driver. The client driver get iio channel >> by iio_channel_get() and release it by calling iio_channel_release(). >> >> Add resource managed version (devm_*) of these APIs so that if client >> calls the devm_iio_channel_get() then it need not to release it explicitly, >> it can be done by managed device framework when driver get un-binded. >> >> This reduces the code in error path and also need of .remove callback in >> some cases. >> >> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com> > Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git. > I guess the thermal driver use case will hit a cycle or so behind this. >
Thanks for applying this.
Yes, thermal driver will use this in future release. This is to avoid any syncup between subsystem.
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