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Commit b2a644b4 authored by Ian Abbott's avatar Ian Abbott Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: comedi: simplify driver module counting



For a legacy device attachment with the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl,
`do_devconfig_ioctl()` calls `comedi_device_attach()` to find a matching
device driver and attach the device.  It then tries to increment the
device driver's module count and if that fails it detaches the device.
So on successful attachment of a device by the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl,
the device driver's module count will have been incremented.

`comedi_device_attach()` is called from nowhere else.  It already
increments the device driver's module count temporarily and decrements
it again; if it gets as far as calling `comedi_device_postconfig()` the
module count is decremented within that function.

Simplify the above by removing the decrement of the device driver module
count from `comedi_device_postconfig()`.  If the call to
`comedi_device_postconfig()` succeeds, `comedi_device_attach()` will
return with the module count still incremented, otherwise decrement the
module count before returning the error.  Don't try and increment the
module count in `do_devconfig_ioctl()` after a successful return from
`comedi_device_attach()` as the module count has now already been
incremented.

`comedi_device_postconfig()` is also called by `comedi_auto_config()`
which currently has to increment the device driver's module count
temporarily so that `comedi_device_postconfig()` can decrement it, but
always returns with no overall change to the module count.  Remove all
the module count manipulations from `comedi_device_postconfig()`.  There
is no other reason for `comedi_auto_config()` to increment the device
driver's module count temporarily, since it is only called (indirectly)
from the device driver itself (usually via one of the wrappers
`comedi_pci_auto_config()` or `comedi_usb_auto_config()`).

Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarH Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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