Re: [PATCH 2/5] drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c: Add missingpci_dev_put

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Nov 19 2007 - 03:22:59 EST



On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 09:03 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> There should be a pci_dev_put when breaking out of a loop that iterates
> over calls to pci_get_device and similar functions.
>
> In this case, the return under the #else case of #ifdef HACKED_PCI_SAVE
> should have a pci_dev_put, just as the return in the case where
> HACKED_PCI_SAVE is true does.
>
> This was fixed using the following semantic patch.

I think most of that code is no longer necessary (and the lack of
pci_dev_put() is mostly due to the fact that this code long predates the
existence of pci_dev_put :-)

I want to try out without that PCI save/restore code on a couple of old
machines see if we can just remove the whole thing.

Ben.


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