Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] revocable: Revocable resource management

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri Jan 16, 2026 at 9:02 AM CET, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index a671e3d4e8be..fd683c62012a 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -22517,6 +22517,13 @@ F:   include/uapi/linux/rseq.h
> >  F:   kernel/rseq.c
> >  F:   tools/testing/selftests/rseq/
> >
> > +REVOCABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
> > +M:   Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +L:   linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > +S:   Maintained
> > +F:   drivers/base/revocable.c
> > +F:   include/linux/revocable.h
>
> NIT: I think we should add this include to the DRIVER CORE entry as well.

FWIW: I'm not even sure drivers/base/ is the right place for this.
Except for a few devm_ helpers, nothing here is inherently tied into
the driver model This could be useful outside of device drivers and I
would suggest to put it under lib/ with devres factored out into a
separate source file.

Bartosz