[PATCH 05/21] gpiolib: add support for scope-based management to gpio_device

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Sep 7 00:09:10 PDT 2023


On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 8:53 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>
>
> As the few users that need to get the reference to the GPIO device often
> release it right after inspecting its properties, let's add support for
> the automatic reference release to struct gpio_device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>

Needless to say, I'm a strong advocate for scoped resource management.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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