linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] spi: split up spi_new_device() to allow two stage registration.

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Message-Id: <200806292108.15909.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:08:15 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, spi-devel-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fabrizio.garetto@...il.com,
	jonsmirl@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] spi: split up spi_new_device() to allow two stage registration.

On Friday 23 May 2008, Grant Likely wrote:
> Question:  spi_alloc_device() (and the original code) does a
> spi_master_get() on the spi_master device.  Doesn't spi_master_put()
> need to be called when the device is discarded?  spi_dev_put() doesn't
> do that explicitly; is it an implicit operation after a device has
> been deregistered from the spi_master?

Depends whether or not the add() has been done to hook things into
the driver model tree, as I recall.  The add() presumes things are
properly refcounted.  When you make a driver model tree node vanish,
its associated refcounts get updated too.

- Dave

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