Dynamic ID addition doesn't need get_driver()
authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:34:41 +0000 (13:34 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:35 +0000 (16:00 -0800)
commitcef9bc56e1e944afd11f96de569657117a138c6d
tree45923c4dec748e82a05313c9c7d443aa11e02a5f
parentfde25a9b63b9a3dc91365c394a426ebe64cfc2da
Dynamic ID addition doesn't need get_driver()

As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch
(as1511) changes all the places that add dynamic IDs for drivers.
Since these additions are done by writing to the drivers' sysfs
attribute files, and the attributes are removed when the drivers are
unregistered, there is no reason to take an extra reference to the
drivers.

The one exception is the pci-stub driver, which calls pci_add_dynid()
as part of its registration.  But again, there's no reason to take an
extra reference here, because the driver can't be unloaded while it is
being registered.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/hid/hid-core.c
drivers/pci/pci-driver.c
drivers/pcmcia/ds.c
drivers/usb/core/driver.c