linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sony-laptop: use platform_device_unregister in sony_pf

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Message-ID: <20100701135401.GG31804@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:54:01 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sony-laptop: use platform_device_unregister in
	sony_pf_remove

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:18:01AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> platform_device_unregister calls platform_device_del and platform_device_put,
> thus this change is logically equivalent to original code.
> 
> I made this change because the documents in platform.c shows that:
> platform_device_del and platform_device_put must _only_ be externally called
> in error cases.  All other usage is a bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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