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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2008-02-24 18:59:55 +0100
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2008-04-18 17:55:31 +0200
commitbd7dee6311156b7cdf884344feb34628909398ad (patch)
tree669b5747c607266e495e6f1b1516663bdca1152a /drivers/firewire/fw-card.c
parenta6ca4f7081095e3cdeb1a45d66fbe4856eca10d3 (diff)
firewire: remove superfluous reference counting
The card->kref became obsolete since patch "firewire: fix crash in automatic module unloading" added another counter of card users. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firewire/fw-card.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firewire/fw-card.c38
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 38 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/fw-card.c b/drivers/firewire/fw-card.c
index a03462750b95..140b34d477de 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/fw-card.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/fw-card.c
@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ fw_card_initialize(struct fw_card *card, const struct fw_card_driver *driver,
{
static atomic_t index = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
- kref_init(&card->kref);
atomic_set(&card->device_count, 0);
card->index = atomic_inc_return(&index);
card->driver = driver;
@@ -429,12 +428,6 @@ fw_card_add(struct fw_card *card,
card->link_speed = link_speed;
card->guid = guid;
- /*
- * The subsystem grabs a reference when the card is added and
- * drops it when the driver calls fw_core_remove_card.
- */
- fw_card_get(card);
-
mutex_lock(&card_mutex);
config_rom = generate_config_rom(card, &length);
list_add_tail(&card->link, &card_list);
@@ -540,40 +533,9 @@ fw_core_remove_card(struct fw_card *card)
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&card->work);
fw_flush_transactions(card);
del_timer_sync(&card->flush_timer);
-
- fw_card_put(card);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fw_core_remove_card);
-struct fw_card *
-fw_card_get(struct fw_card *card)
-{
- kref_get(&card->kref);
-
- return card;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(fw_card_get);
-
-static void
-release_card(struct kref *kref)
-{
- struct fw_card *card = container_of(kref, struct fw_card, kref);
-
- kfree(card);
-}
-
-/*
- * An assumption for fw_card_put() is that the card driver allocates
- * the fw_card struct with kalloc and that it has been shut down
- * before the last ref is dropped.
- */
-void
-fw_card_put(struct fw_card *card)
-{
- kref_put(&card->kref, release_card);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(fw_card_put);
-
int
fw_core_initiate_bus_reset(struct fw_card *card, int short_reset)
{