Hello! On 03/03/2017 08:00 PM, Gwendal Grignou wrote:
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Without this patch, failed probe would not free resources like irq. ata port tdev object currently hold a reference to the ata port object. Therefore the ata port object release function will not get called until the ata_tport_release is called. But that would never happen, releasing the last reference of ata port dev is done by scsi_host_release, which is called by ata_host_release when the ata port object is released. The ata tranport device objects actually do not need to explicitly hold
Not ata_transport.
a reference to their real counterpart, given the transport objects are the children of these objects and device_add() is call for each child. We know the parent will not be deleted until we call the child
Child's?
device_del(). Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
You're saying it's Tejun's patch but there's no sign-off from him? MBR, Sergei -- 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
