Re: [PATCH 1/1] [SCSI] gdth: misc cleanups, preparation for ISA/EISA hotplug API

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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:31:17AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:18:23AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > hmmmmm.  We'll see how it plays out...  on the remove side, the above is 
> > exact what happens in gdth_remove_one() without my patch, thus 
> > consolidating two cases of the same code into one.  There is a less-strong 
> > argument for doing the allocation that way, but it may turn out to be 
> > useful anyway once the ISA/EISA API conversion is complete.
> 
> EISA ->remove has a different prototype from PCI ->remove from ISA
> ->remove, so gdth_remove_one will be split up eventually.  Having the
> scsi_host_put duplicated in each shouldn't be too much of a problem :)

Shouldn't need to duplicate it ... free bus-specific things in the
->remove method, and call a common helper.  See advansys_release() and
its callers in advansys.c for how I did it.

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