Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: core: Add devm_ APIs for iio_channel_{get,release}

[Laxman Dewangan]

On Sunday 17 April 2016 05:30 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 06/04/16 11:31, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > Some of kernel driver uses the IIO framework to get the sensor
> > value via ADC or IIO HW driver. The client driver get iio channel
> > by iio_channel_get() and release it by calling iio_channel_release().
> >
> > Add resource managed version (devm_*) of these APIs so that if client
> > calls the devm_iio_channel_get() then it need not to release it explicitly,
> > it can be done by managed device framework when driver get un-binded.
> >
> > This reduces the code in error path and also need of .remove callback in
> > some cases.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git.
> I guess the thermal driver use case will hit a cycle or so behind this.

Thanks for applying this.

Yes, thermal driver will use this in future release. This is to avoid 
any syncup between subsystem.