On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:17 PM, David Brownell [off-list ref] wrote:

On Friday 16 May 2008, Grant Likely wrote:

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This patch splits the allocation and registration portions of code out
of spi_new_device() and creates three new functions; spi_alloc_device(),
spi_register_device(), and spi_device_release().

I have no problem with the first two, but why the last?

If the devices are always allocated by spi_alloc_device() as
they should be -- probably through an intermediary -- the
only public function necessary for that cleanup should be
the existing spi_dev_put().

Ah, okay.  I'm still a bit fuzzy on the device model conventions.
I'll remove that then.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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