linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/11] remove usb

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1206071640031.1185-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <oneukum@...e.de>,
	<alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] remove usb_interface pointer

On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Stefani Seibold wrote:

> That what i am looking for. If we do an usb_get_intf() in the
> skel_probe() function and an usb_put_intf() in skel_delete() function at
> the end, then it should be save to access the usb_device pointer by
> interface_to_usbdev() in the skel_delete() function. Right?

Safe, yes, but unnecessary.  Just get rid of the usb_put_dev() in 
skel_delete and the usb_get_dev in skel_probe.

Alan Stern

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