[PATCH v1 09/16] rtc: mediatek: convert to use device managed functions

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 27 08:07:51 PDT 2018


On 26/03/2018 at 12:07:45 +0800, Sean Wang wrote:
> > > -	rtc->rtc_dev = rtc_device_register("mt6397-rtc", &pdev->dev,
> > > -					   &mtk_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
> > > +	rtc->rtc_dev = devm_rtc_device_register(&pdev->dev, "mt6397-rtc",
> > > +						&mtk_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
> > 
> > You should probably switch to devm_rtc_allocate_device() and
> > rtc_register_device instead of devm_rtc_device_register.
> > 
> 
> Just would like to know something details
> 
> It seems you just encourage me to switch into the new registration
> method and currently devm_rtc_device_register I used for the driver
> shouldn't cause any harm. right?
> 

It will work but it will have to be converted to rtc_register_device
later anyway.


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