Re: [PATCH 001/003] Attempt to cope with device changes and delayed kobject deallocation

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Richard Watts <rrw@kynesim.co.uk> writes:

> Expose kobject_get_unless_zero() which will shortly be
>   needed by get_device_parent().
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Watts <rrw@kynesim.co.uk>
> ---
>   include/linux/kobject.h | 1 +
>   lib/kobject.c           | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
> index 2d61b90..662b136 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kobject.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
> @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ extern int __must_check kobject_rename(struct 
> kobject *, const char *new_name);
>   extern int __must_check kobject_move(struct kobject *, struct kobject *);
>
>   extern struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj);
> +extern struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct 
> kobject *kobj);
>   extern void kobject_put(struct kobject *kobj);
>
>   extern const void *kobject_namespace(struct kobject *kobj);
> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
> index 3b841b9..3ba1db4 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj)
>   	return kobj;
>   }
>
> -static struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct 
> kobject *kobj)
> +struct kobject * __must_check kobject_get_unless_zero(struct kobject *kobj)
>   {
>   	if (!kref_get_unless_zero(&kobj->kref))
>   		kobj = NULL;

Hi Richard,

checkpatch is complaining about some trailing whitespace in this patch.

> -- 
> 1.9.1

-- 
Alex Bennée