Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: remove the get_by_name/put API

[Ohad Ben-Cohen]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/02/12 13:10, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
>> Remove rproc_get_by_name() and rproc_put(), and the associated
>> remoteproc infrastructure that supports it (i.e. klist and friends),
>> because:
>>
>> 1. No one uses them
>> 2. Using them is highly discouraged, and any potential user
>>    will be deeply scrutinized and encouraged to move.
>>
>> If a user, that absolutely can't live with the direct boot/shutdown
>> model, does show up one day, then bringing this functionality back
>> is going to be trivial.
>>
>> At this point though, keeping this functionality around is way too
>> much of a maintenance burden.
>>
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.
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