[PATCH v5 0/2] Small devm helper for devm implementations

[Marc Gonzalez]

Hello Greg,

Would you agree to take this series?

Regards.

On 18/06/2020 13:38, Marc Gonzalez wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> In my opinion, the small and simple devm_add() helper
> (and its cousin, devm_vadd) can help make devm code
> slightly easier to write and maintain.
> 
> Would anyone care to agree or disagree? :-)
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On 10/03/2020 11:11, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> 
>> Differences from v4 to v5
>> x Fix the grammar in devm_add comments [Geert]
>> x Undo an unrelated change in devm_clk_put [Geert]
>>
>> Differences from v3 to v4
>> x Add a bunch of kerneldoc above devm_add() [Greg KH]
>> x Split patch in two [Greg KH]
>>
>> Differences from v2 to v3
>> x Make devm_add() return an error-code rather than the raw data pointer
>>   (in case devres_alloc ever returns an ERR_PTR) as suggested by Geert
>> x Provide a variadic version devm_vadd() to work with structs as suggested
>>   by Geert
>> x Don't use nested ifs in clk_devm* implementations (hopefully simpler
>>   code logic to follow) as suggested by Geert
>>
>> Marc Gonzalez (2):
>>   devres: Provide new helper for devm functions
>>   clk: Use devm_add in managed functions
>>
>>  drivers/base/devres.c    | 28 ++++++++++++
>>  drivers/clk/clk-devres.c | 97 +++++++++++++++-------------------------
>>  include/linux/device.h   |  3 ++
>>  3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)