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Subject[PATCH 1/4] radio-shark*: Remove work-around for dangling pointer in usb intfdata
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Recent kernels properly clear the usb intfdata pointer when another
driver fails to bind (in the radio-shark* case the usbhid driver would try
to bind first.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
---
drivers/media/radio/radio-shark.c | 9 ---------
drivers/media/radio/radio-shark2.c | 9 ---------
2 files changed, 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark.c b/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark.c
index c2ead23..6117132 100644
--- a/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark.c
+++ b/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark.c
@@ -286,15 +286,6 @@ static int usb_shark_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
if (!shark->transfer_buffer)
goto err_alloc_buffer;

- /*
- * Work around a bug in usbhid/hid-core.c, where it leaves a dangling
- * pointer in intfdata causing v4l2-device.c to not set it. Which
- * results in usb_shark_disconnect() referencing the dangling pointer
- *
- * REMOVE (as soon as the above bug is fixed, patch submitted)
- */
- usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL);
-
shark->v4l2_dev.release = usb_shark_release;
v4l2_device_set_name(&shark->v4l2_dev, DRV_NAME, &shark_instance);
retval = v4l2_device_register(&intf->dev, &shark->v4l2_dev);
diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark2.c b/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark2.c
index b9575de..fc0289d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark2.c
+++ b/drivers/media/radio/radio-shark2.c
@@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ static int usb_shark_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
if (!shark->transfer_buffer)
goto err_alloc_buffer;

- /*
- * Work around a bug in usbhid/hid-core.c, where it leaves a dangling
- * pointer in intfdata causing v4l2-device.c to not set it. Which
- * results in usb_shark_disconnect() referencing the dangling pointer
- *
- * REMOVE (as soon as the above bug is fixed, patch submitted)
- */
- usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL);
-
shark->v4l2_dev.release = usb_shark_release;
v4l2_device_set_name(&shark->v4l2_dev, DRV_NAME, &shark_instance);
retval = v4l2_device_register(&intf->dev, &shark->v4l2_dev);
--
1.7.11.4


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