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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Bryan.Whitehead@microchip•com
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, UNGLinuxDriver@microchip•com,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] lan743x: Add main source files for new lan743x driver
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:47:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222214732.GJ28112@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180222214534.GI28112@lunn.ch>

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:45:34PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Also I'm allocating interrupt resources on interface up, and freeing resources
> > on interface down. So if there is an up, down, up sequence then the driver
> > will allocate resources twice. In order for devm to work properly, should I
> > move all resource allocation into the probe function?
> 
> Hi Bryan
> 
> It is better to fail early if the resource is not available, so yes, i
> would register the interrupt handler in probe.

And we maintainers don't always agree with each other :-)

Doing irq handling in open/close without devm_ is also O.K.

	 Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-22 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-21 19:06 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] lan743x: Add new lan743x driver Bryan Whitehead
2018-02-21 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] lan743x: Add main source files for " Bryan Whitehead
2018-02-22  2:55   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-02-22 21:31     ` Bryan.Whitehead
2018-02-22 21:43       ` Florian Fainelli
2018-02-22 21:45       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-02-22 21:47         ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-02-22 22:10           ` Bryan.Whitehead
2018-02-22 18:02   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-22 18:02   ` [RFC PATCH] lan743x: lan743x_csr_read() can be static kbuild test robot
2018-02-22 22:08   ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] lan743x: Add main source files for new lan743x driver Florian Fainelli
2018-02-23 22:44     ` Bryan.Whitehead
2018-02-24  2:06       ` Andrew Lunn
2018-02-26  5:41         ` Bryan.Whitehead
2018-02-26 17:25           ` Andrew Lunn
2018-02-26 17:35             ` Bryan.Whitehead
2018-02-21 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] lan743x: Update MAINTAINERS to include " Bryan Whitehead

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