Re: [PATCH 08/10] soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add release operation

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:52 AM Misono Tomohiro
[off-list ref] wrote:

Upon release, we cleanup remaining resources/registers if necessary.
This happens when user does not call IOC_BB_FREE properly and the
function will do effectively the same operation as IOC_BB_FREE.

Signed-off-by: Misono Tomohiro <redacted>

What is the benefit of calling IOC_BB_FREE instead of always relying
on close() to do this? Would it be easier to just not implement IOC_BB_FREE?

      Arnd

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