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Commit fde25a9b authored by Alan Stern's avatar Alan Stern Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Driver core: driver_find() drops reference before returning



As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch
(as1510) changes driver_find(); it now drops the reference it acquires
before returning.  The patch also adjusts all the callers of
driver_find() to remove the now unnecessary calls to put_driver().

In addition, the patch adds a warning to driver_find(): Callers must
make sure the driver they are searching for does not get unloaded
while they are using it.  This has always been the case; driver_find()
has never prevented a driver from being unregistered or unloaded.
Hence the patch will not introduce any new bugs.  The existing callers
all seem to be okay in this respect, however I don't understand the
video drivers well enough to be certain about them.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
CC: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
CC: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 2b31594a
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