2017-05-31 18:06 GMT+02:00 Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>: > This series is a follow-up to [1]. > > Some users of irq_alloc_generic_chip() are modules which can be > removed (e.g. gpio-ml-ioh) but have no means of freeing the allocated > generic chip. > > Last time it was suggested to provide irq_destroy_generic_chip() which > would undo both irq_remove_generic_chip() and irq_alloc_generic_chip(). > > This functionality is provided by patch 2/5 with 1/5 adding the option > to only free the allocated memory. > > Patch 3/5 exports a function that will be used in the devres variant > of irq_alloc_generic_chip(). > > Patches 4/5 and 5/5 add resource managed versions of > irq_alloc_generic_chip() & irq_setup_generic_chip(). They will be used > in drivers where applicable. Device resources are released in reverse > order so it's ok to call devm_irq_alloc_generic_chip() and then > devm_irq_setup_generic_chip(). > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/8/550 > > Bartosz Golaszewski (5): > irq: generic-chip: provide irq_free_generic_chip() > irq: generic-chip: provide irq_destroy_generic_chip() > irq: generic-chip: export irq_init_generic_chip() locally > irq: generic-chip: provide devm_irq_alloc_generic_chip() > irq: generic-chip: provide devm_irq_setup_generic_chip() > > Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt | 2 + > include/linux/irq.h | 22 +++++++++ > kernel/irq/devres.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > kernel/irq/generic-chip.c | 7 ++- > kernel/irq/internals.h | 11 +++++ > 5 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.9.3 > Ping for v4.13. Is there any reason not to merge it? Thanks, Bartosz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
