From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation/pci.txt inconsistency
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:03:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041117220310.GB1291@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411171334.56492@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de>
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,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-17 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-17 12:34 Documentation/pci.txt inconsistency Rolf Eike Beer
2004-11-17 22:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-11-18 9:45 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2004-11-19 18:30 ` Greg KH
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