Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:03:10 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Documentation/pci.txt inconsistency |
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:34:56PM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > The examples in section 2 of Documentation/pci.txt use pci_get_*. Some lines > later there is this funny little paragraph: > > > Note that these functions are not hotplug-safe. Their hotplug-safe > > replacements are pci_get_device(), pci_get_class() and pci_get_subsys(). > > They increment the reference count on the pci_dev that they return. > > You must eventually (possibly at module unload) decrement the reference > > count on these devices by calling pci_dev_put(). > > How about this: > > These functions are hotplug-safe. They increment the reference count on the > pci_dev that they return. You must eventually (possibly at module unload) > decrement the reference count on these devices by calling pci_dev_put().
Great, care to send a patch instead?
thanks,
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