Re: [PATCH] i2c: remove helpers for ref-counting clients
From: Luca Ceresoli
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 02:59:41 EST
Hi,
On 09/11/19 22:26, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> There are no in-tree users of these helpers anymore, and there
> shouldn't. Most use cases went away once the driver model started to
> refcount for us. There have been users like the media subsystem, but
> they all switched to better refcounting methods meanwhile. Media did
> this in 2008. Last user (IPMI) left 2018. Remove this cruft.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[Tested on older kernel + TI serdes patches]
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Luca