[PATCH] of_add_property and property list locking (2.5)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 26 09:09:57 EST 2003


> If you are thinking of reference counts for properties, this is doable.
>   But don't you think it could wait until we are deleting properties
> outside the context of deleting a device node?

No, that's ok, just wanted to be sure. One thing is that your current
API doesn't allow for future addition of the deletion of property if
we ever want it. For that, you would need, probably, to define an
of_put_property

Ben.


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