Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] drivers: base: Add resource managed version of delayed work init

[Vaittinen, Matti]

On Mon, 2021-02-15 at 12:43 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2/15/21 12:31 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:37:26AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 2/15/21 8:22 AM, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 16:59 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 2/13/21 4:27 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > > On 2/13/21 7:03 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > > > [ ... ]
> > > > > > > I think something like this should work:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > static int devm_delayed_work_autocancel(struct device
> > > > > > > *dev,
> > > > > > > struct delayed_work *w,
> > > > > > > 					void (*worker)(struct
> > > > > > > work_struct *work)) {
> > > > > > > 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(w, worker);
> > > > > > > 	return devm_add_action(dev, (void (*action)(void
> > > > > > > *))cancel_delayed_work_sync, w);
> > > > > > > }
> > > 
> > > include/linux/devm-cleanup-helpers.h
> > > 
> > > And put everything (including kdoc texts) there.
> > > 
> > > This way the functionality is 100% opt-in (by explicitly
> > > including
> > > the header if you want the helpers) which hopefully makes this a
> > > bit more acceptable to people who don't like this style of
> > > cleanups.
> > > 
> > > I would be even happy to act as the upstream maintainer for such
> > > a
> > > include/linux/devm-cleanup-helpers.h file, I can maintain it as
> > > part
> > > of the platform-drivers-x86 tree (with its own MAINTAINERS
> > > entry).
> > > 
> > > Greg, would this be an acceptable solution to you ?
> > 
> > I don't know, sorry, let's revisit this after 5.12-rc1 is out, with
> > a
> > patch set that I can review again, and we can go from there as I
> > can't
> > do anything until then...
> 
> Ok.

This is Ok for me too. I am in no hurry with this - I've already a few
things to work on.
So, I will rework this to be in a single header when v5.12-rc1 is out.

Best Regards
	Matti Vaittinen


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