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Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: core: Add devm_ APIs for iio_channel_{get,release}

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On Sunday 17 April 2016 05:30 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 06/04/16 11:31, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>> Some of kernel driver uses the IIO framework to get the sensor
>> value via ADC or IIO HW driver. The client driver get iio channel
>> by iio_channel_get() and release it by calling iio_channel_release().
>>
>> Add resource managed version (devm_*) of these APIs so that if client
>> calls the devm_iio_channel_get() then it need not to release it explicitly,
>> it can be done by managed device framework when driver get un-binded.
>>
>> This reduces the code in error path and also need of .remove callback in
>> some cases.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git.
> I guess the thermal driver use case will hit a cycle or so behind this.
>

Thanks for applying this.

Yes, thermal driver will use this in future release. This is to avoid 
any syncup between subsystem.

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: core: Add devm_ APIs for  iio_channel_{get,release} Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2016-04-17 14:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: core: Add devm_ APIs for iio_channel_{get,release} Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com> - 2016-04-17 19:10 +0200

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