Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] amba: bus: balance firmware node reference counting

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:01:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 07:26:54PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Currently the ACPI code doesn't bump the reference count of
> > the firmware node, while OF counter part does. Not that it's
> > a problem right now, since ACPI doesn't really use the reference
> > counting for firmware nodes, it still makes sense to make code
> > robust against any changes done there. For this,
> >  - switch ACPI case to use device_set_node() to be unified with OF
> >  - move reference counting to amba_device_add()
> >  - switch to use firmware nodes instead of OF ones
> > 
> > In the result we will have reference counting done in the same module
> > for all callers independently on the nature of firmware node behind.
> 
> Any comment on this? I would like to have this applied so I can do something
> similar to the platform driver code.

Ah, I see, I missed LKP run on this, I'll send a v2 perhaps later on this week.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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