From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] ide: update ide_unregister() documentation Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> --- just a couple of cleanups, should be applied on a top of Sunday's patchset [ http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122921159918716&w=2 ] drivers/ide/ide.c | 18 +++++------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/ide/ide.c =================================================================== --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -155,22 +155,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ide_port_unregister_de * ide_unregister - free an IDE interface * @hwif: IDE interface * - * Perform the final unregister of an IDE interface. At the moment - * we don't refcount interfaces so this will also get split up. + * Perform the final unregister of an IDE interface. * * Locking: - * The caller must not hold the IDE locks - * The drive present/vanishing is not yet properly locked - * Take care with the callbacks. These have been split to avoid - * deadlocking the IDE layer. The shutdown callback is called - * before we take the lock and free resources. It is up to the - * caller to be sure there is no pending I/O here, and that - * the interface will not be reopened (present/vanishing locking - * isn't yet done BTW). After we commit to the final kill we - * call the cleanup callback with the ide locks held. + * The caller must not hold the IDE locks. * - * Unregister restores the hwif structures to the default state. - * This is raving bonkers. + * It is up to the caller to be sure there is no pending I/O here, + * and that the interface will not be reopened (present/vanishing + * locking isn't yet done BTW). */ void ide_unregister(ide_hwif_t *hwif) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
