linux-kernel - Re: my first janitorial

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Message-ID: <460FF9E7.1080107@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:28:55 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Pedram M <pmessri@...il.com>, kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: my first janitorial

Alan Cox napsal(a):
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:24:12 -0700
> "Pedram M" <pmessri@...il.com> 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 to hold a reference to the PCI device for the entire duration it
> is used. I think you actually also need something like this to get the whole
> thing using pci references and pci_get_* properly
> 
> Alan
> 
> --- drivers/char/cyclades.c~	2007-04-01 15:52:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ drivers/char/cyclades.c	2007-04-01 15:52:16.000000000 +0100
> @@ -4803,7 +4782,7 @@
>                  cy_card[j].bus_index = 1;
>                  cy_card[j].first_line = cy_next_channel;
>                  cy_card[j].num_chips = cy_pci_nchan/4;
> -		cy_card[j].pdev = pdev;
> +		cy_card[j].pdev = pci_dev_get(pdev);

No, please let this code be, I have a bunch of patches to have pci_probing
for this driver, the remaining part for first set of patches is testing.

thanks,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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