[PATCH 1/6] thermal: Introduce devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Thu May 2 02:48:43 AEST 2019


On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:58:15PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> thermal_of_cooling_device_register() and thermal_cooling_device_register()
> are typically called from driver probe functions, and
> thermal_cooling_device_unregister() is called from remove functions. This
> makes both a perfect candidate for device managed functions.
> 
> Introduce devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register(). This function can
> also be used to replace thermal_cooling_device_register() by passing a NULL
> pointer as device node. The new function requires both struct device *
> and struct device_node * as parameters since the struct device_node *
> parameter is not always identical to dev->of_node.
> 
> Don't introduce a device managed remove function since it is not needed
> at this point.
> 

Any feedback / thoughts / comments ?

Thanks,
Guenter


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