Re: Documentation/pci.txt inconsistency

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:45:01AM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:34:56PM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > > The examples in section 2 of Documentation/pci.txt use pci_get_*. Some
> > > lines
> > >
> > > later there is this funny little paragraph:
> > > > Note that these functions are not hotplug-safe.  Their hotplug-safe
> > > > replacements are pci_get_device(), pci_get_class() and
> > > > pci_get_subsys(). They increment the reference count on the pci_dev
> > > > that they return. You must eventually (possibly at module unload)
> > > > decrement the reference count on these devices by calling
> > > > pci_dev_put().
> > >
> > > How about this:
> > >
> > > These functions are hotplug-safe. They increment the reference count on
> > > the pci_dev that they return. You must eventually (possibly at module
> > > unload) decrement the reference count on these devices by calling
> > > pci_dev_put().
> >
> > Great, care to send a patch instead?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h