Re: [PATCH 1/1] counter: intel-qep: Use devm_mutex_init()

From: William Breathitt Gray

Date: Thu May 28 2026 - 22:34:53 EST


On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 10:36:15AM +0900, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 May 2026 14:18:12 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > intel_qep_probe() calls mutex_init() but lacks the pairing
> > mutex_destroy() calls. Convert to devm_mutex_init() which handles
> > cleanup automatically.
> >
> >
>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> [1/1] counter: intel-qep: Use devm_mutex_init()
> commit: ff35c72101d1dc6793496ade9c1bc3d70dd27bdd
>
> Best regards,
> --
> William Breathitt Gray <wbg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hello Ilpo,

In a similar patch[^1], Jonathan made a good point that a Fixes tag may
not be appropriate for this patch when it only affects debug information
as Joshua pointed out[^2].

So I am going to treat this as an update patch to intel-qep rather than
a bug fix and remove the Fixes tag and stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC line
from the description. If you feel that this patch really should be
picked up by the stable trees, please let us know and we can discuss
further.

Thank you,

William Breathitt Gray

[^1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260527175513.0df47897@jic23-huawei/
[^2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CALoEA-wrYjbkhM7EiS+f-JjXShpRJw+gqy2zzymq9Ue5t-XN5A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/