Re: [PATCH 15/23] gpio: mockup: use dynamic device IDs

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Mon Sep 07 2020 - 08:05:38 EST


On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 1:50 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 01:04:29PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 6:49 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:45:39PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > We're currently creating chips at module init time only so using a
> > > > static index for dummy devices is fine. We want to support dynamically
> > > > created chips however so we need to switch to dynamic device IDs.
> > >
> > > It misses ida_destroy().
> >
> > No, we always call ida_free() for separate IDs when removing devices
> > and we remove all devices at module exit so no need to call
> > ida_destroy().
>
> Perhaps couple of words about this in the commit message?
>

But ida_destroy() and ida_free() are already well documented. It's
clear that we remove all devices at exit and that every device removes
its ID, there's really no point in mentioning it again.

Bart