Re: [RFC/PATCH] devres: allow adding custom actions to the stack

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Feb 25 2013 - 19:12:14 EST


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 03:48:01PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 08:05:57PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Sometimes drivers need to execute one-off actions in their error handling
> > or device teardown paths. An example would be toggling a GPIO line to
> > reset the controlled device into predefined state.
> >
> > To allow performing such actions when using managed resources let's allow
> > adding them to stack/group of devres resources.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks Tejun.

Greg, if possible I'd like to carry this in my tree as I have driver
changes depending on this.

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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