[PATCH 0/4] Component helper updates

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 03:01:43PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Given the lack of interest in these patches, I've put these into my
> "for-next" branch so that they can get some exposure in linux-next.

These have been in for-next, and no one's reported any issues.
I've now queued these into my for-linus branch in preparation to
merging during the next merge window.

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > Greg,
> > 
> > These four patches update the component helper by:
> > * Removing the legacy matching code with the .add_components method
> >   in the master's operation structure.  Nothing in -rc1 appears to be
> >   using the legacy functions or method, according to my git greps.
> > 
> > * A slight code reorganisation which results in slightly easier to read
> >   code.
> > 
> > * Switch to tracking components via an array rather than a list, which
> >   allows us to keep the matching and matched components together, and
> >   more importantly allows us to reduce the amount of matching - with
> >   this structure, we can incrementally add the component devices as
> >   they become available, rather than re-running the list of matches
> >   each time something changes.
> > 
> > * Fix the lack of match release functionality, which Liviu Dudau
> >   reminded me was missing.  This allows people who want to pass
> >   device_node structures in to (correctly) retain the reference to the
> >   node, and drop the node when the need to do matches is no longer
> >   required.
> > 
> > The first three patches have been well tested over the last year as I've
> > had them in my tree that long.  I hadn't considered them important enough
> > to send as they're only removing and cleaning up functionality.  However,
> > with the need to fix something, it now makes sense to get them merged.
> > 
> > The last patch has been tested with etnaviv DRM to prove that the match
> > release works by unloading the module.  On unload, the release function
> > is correctly called.
> > 
> > This is intended for the next merge window.  Please apply.
> > 
> >  drivers/base/component.c  | 281 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> >  include/linux/component.h |  33 ++++--
> >  2 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)
> > 
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