On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen [off-list ref] wrote:

Now that every rproc instance contains a device, we don't need a
kref anymore to maintain the refcount of the rproc instances:
that's what device are good with!

This patch removes the now-redundant kref, and switches to
{get, put}_device instead of kref_{get, put}.

We also don't need the kref's release function anymore, and instead,
we just utilize the class's release handler (which is now responsible
for all memory de-allocations).

Cc: Stephen Boyd <redacted>
Cc: Fernando Guzman Lugo <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <redacted>
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 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c   |   59 +++++++++++---------------------
 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c |    8 ++--
 include/linux/remoteproc.h             |    3 --
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

Applied (after moving the kerneldoc for rproc_class_release() to the
patch where that function was introduced).