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Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API

From Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API
Date 2017-03-03 13:50 +0100
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 11:23:16 +0000
Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> wrote:


> 
> > +	mutex_lock(&mtd_nvmem_list_lock);
> > +	list_for_each_entry(mtd_nvmem, &mtd_nvmem_list, list) {
> > +		if (mtd_nvmem->mtd == mtd) {
> > +			list_del(&mtd_nvmem->list);
> > +			found = true;
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +	mutex_unlock(&mtd_nvmem_list_lock);
> > +
> > +	if (found) {
> > +		if (nvmem_unregister(mtd_nvmem->nvmem))
> > +			dev_err(&mtd->dev,
> > +				"Failed to unregister NVMEM device\n");  
> 
> I will be nice to feedback error to top layer, as it does not make sense 
> to remove providers if there are active consumers using it.
> 
> del_mtd_device(), unregister_mtd_user() have return values, I see no 
> reason why notifiers  should not return errors.
> May be if we should fix the remove() call backs to handle and return errors.

It's more complicated than that. What should you do if one of the
->remove() notifier in the middle of the list is returning an error?
Some of them have already taken the remove notification into account.
Should we call ->add() back on those notifiers? Also, I'm not sure they
are all safe against double ->remove() calls, so if we might be in
trouble when the removal is retried.

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[PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API Alban <albeu@free.fr> - 2017-03-02 21:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-02 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Alban <albeu@free.fr> - 2017-03-03 13:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-03 14:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-03 15:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-03-03 23:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Alban <albeu@free.fr> - 2017-03-06 18:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-03-06 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-06 22:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Alban <albeu@free.fr> - 2017-03-03 21:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2017-03-03 12:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-03 13:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Alban <albeu@free.fr> - 2017-03-03 14:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the  nvmem API Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-03-03 15:20 +0100

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