Re: [KJ] my first janitorial

[Jaco Kroon <jaco@kroon.co.za>]

Pedram M wrote:
> How about this one? Am I doing it right now?
> If not, please try to explain more to me what I am
> doing wrong.

You need a changelog entry (or explanation of what you're doing). You 
need a signed-off-by line and your patch needs to apply to the root of 
the kernel tree with -p1, something like:

-------------
Replace deprecated pci_find_device call with pci_get_device.

Signed-Off-By: Pedram M <pmessri@gmail.com>

--- linux-2.6.20.3.orig/path/to/file.c     2006-06-24 09:41:08.000000000 
+0200
+++ linux-2.6.20.3/path/to/file.c       2006-07-15 21:01:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -4760,7 +4760,7 @@
  	for (i = 0; i < NR_CARDS; i++) {
  		/* look for a Cyclades card by vendor and device id */
  		while ((device_id = cy_pci_dev_id[dev_index]) != 0) {
-			if ((pdev = pci_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CYCLADES,
+			if ((pdev = pci_get_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CYCLADES,
  						   device_id, pdev)) == NULL) {
  				dev_index++;	/* try next device id */
  			} else {
-------------

And your subject needs to please include the string "[PATCH]", something 
like:  [PATCH] path/to/file.c: pci_find_device cleanup

However, as pointed out, the code itself is incorrect, for every 
pci_get_device there also needs to be a call to pci_put_device in order 
to maintain reference counts.

Your client does not seem to be clobbering the patch itself and 
maintains tabs and line wrapping (unlike my client).

Jaco