Re: [RFT PATCH 15/21] arm: omap1: ams-delta: stop using gpiochip_find()

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On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 9:35 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Oops one more note:
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 8:53 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > gpiochip_find() is going away as it's not hot-unplug safe. This platform
> > is not affected by any of the related problems as this GPIO controller
> > cannot really go away but in order to finally remove this function, we
> > need to convert it to using gpio_device_find() as well.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> (...)
> > +       struct gpio_device *gdev;
> (...)
> > +       gdev = gpio_device_find_by_label(OMAP_GPIO_LABEL);
>
> This leaves a reference to the gdev right? No scoped guard?
>
> If you leave a dangling reference intentionally I think it warrants
> a comment ("leaving a ref here so the device will never be
> free:ed").
>

It's right there in the comment. :)

Bart




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