On Sat Jun 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM CEST, Danilo Krummrich wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 09:53:06AM +0200, Benno Lossin wrote: >> Hmm @Danilo, do you have any use-cases in mind or already done? > > There may be other use-cases, but the one that I could forsee is very specific: > > A Registration type that carries additional reference-counted data, where the > Registration should be released exactly when the device is unbound, independent > of the lifetime of the data. > > Obviously, this implies that the ForeignOwnable is an Arc. > > With KBox, Release and Drop are pretty much identical, so using > devres::release() instead, is much simpler and hence what we do for all simple > class device registrations. > > Besides that, the use-case described above can also be covered by Devres with > the pin-init rework, by having the Registration embed a Devres<Inner>, which > is what irq::Registration does and I also do in the MiscDeviceRegistration > patches. > > Hence, I already considered dropping this patch -- and I think we should do this > for now. Sounds good! We can always pick it up again when needed. --- Cheers, Benno
