Re: [PATCH 00/42] of: reserved_mem: Introduce devres helpers and convert drivers

On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 01:14:13PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 01:08:13AM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> > Drivers using of_reserved_mem_device_init() and its variants must
> > manually call of_reserved_mem_device_release() in their remove and
> > error-unwind paths. This is repetitive boilerplate that is easy to
> > get wrong, and several drivers have open-coded the teardown
> > inconsistently or skipped it entirely, leading to dangling reserved
> > memory references.
> 
> Just as a general thing, rather than sending a huge cross subsystem
> series for something like this it's probably better to just send a
> couple of examples, then once the new API is introduced and either has a
> pullable tag or has made it to mainline go and do the conversion.  This
> avoids clogging everyone's inbox with very big serieses.

Apologies for this; this is my first series touching these many
subsystems, and I also learned the hard way when the entire
series was not sent in one shot due to the daily sending limit
via git send-email[1], and I had to cut many cc lists for patches
33/42 to 42/42.

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Thanks for the suggestion; point noted.

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-Mukesh Ojha