Re: [PATCH 2/2] remoteproc: remove the now-redundant kref

[Ohad Ben-Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:52:27AM +0300, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
>> Simplify the unregister/free interfaces, and make them easier
>> to understand and use, by moving to a symmetric and consistent
>> alloc() -> register() -> unregister() -> free() flow.
>
> The naming in the driver model is:
>
> alloc() -> add() -> del() -> put()
>
> where alloc() is an allocation + initialization, and
>
> register() -> unregister()
>
> where register() is initialization + add() and
> unregister() is del() + put().

I wasn't sure if it'd help to adopt the driver model's naming, but I
guess it just might do, so I'll do that.

Thanks!
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