From: Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 try #2] Char: correct pci_get_device changes
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:45:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4537D5E1.50705@eth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1966866new061818079@muni.cz>
Jiri Slaby wrote:
> correct pci_get_device changes
>
> Commits 881a8c120acf7ec09c90289e2996b7c70f51e996 and
> efe1ec27837d6639eae82e1f5876910ba6433c3f corrects pci device matching in
> only one way; it no longer oopses/crashes, despite hotplug is not solved in
> these changes.
>
> Whenever pci_find_device -> pci_get_device change is performed, also
> pci_dev_get and pci_dev_put should be in most cases called to properly
> handle hotplug. This patch does exactly this thing -- increase refcount to
> let kernel know, that we are using this piece of HW just now.
>
> It affects moxa and rio char drivers.
>
> Cc: <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
> Cc: Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Amit Gud <gud@ksu.edu>
AG
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-19 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-19 14:44 [PATCH 1/1 try #2] Char: correct pci_get_device changes Jiri Slaby
2006-10-19 16:36 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-19 19:45 ` Amit Gud [this message]
2006-10-19 20:34 ` Greg KH
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