[U-Boot] [PATCHv1 14/14] reset: remove request and free functions

[Stephen Warren]

On 04/16/2018 12:43 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> +Stephen for comment
> 
> Hi Dinh,
> 
> On 14 April 2018 at 12:51, Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at kernel.org> wrote:
>> The request and free reset functions are not really used for any useful
>> purpose but for debugging. We can safely remove them.
> 
> The API is set to line up with clocks. I think in general we do want
> to be able to request and free these devices, just as we do for GPIOs.
> What is the goal of removing these methods?

Many of the request methods do in fact do something; they check the 
validity of the reset ID so that check doesn't need to be duplicated 
everywhere. Even ignoring that, any resource management API should have 
explicit request/free APIs so that lifetime can be tracked if needed.