[PATCH v5 01/11] firmware: raspberrypi: Keep count of all consumers

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 12:26:15 EST 2020



On 11/23/2020 10:38 AM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> When unbinding the firmware device we need to make sure it has no
> consumers left. Otherwise we'd leave them with a firmware handle
> pointing at freed memory.
> 
> Keep a reference count of all consumers and introduce rpi_firmware_put()
> which will permit automatically decrease the reference count upon
> unbinding consumer drivers.
> 
> Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne at suse.de>

This looks fine to me, just one nit below:

[snip]

>  /**
> - * rpi_firmware_get - Get pointer to rpi_firmware structure.

Is not removing this line going to create a kernel doc warning?

With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
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Florian



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