From: John Pittman Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:56:22 +0000 (-0500) Subject: scsi: documentation: Fix case of 'scsi_device' struct mention(s) X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a08415ea2a8b3f0173fd0612317d5cba5b57fedb;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git scsi: documentation: Fix case of 'scsi_device' struct mention(s) In scsi_mid_low_api.txt a the scsi_device structure is mentioned several times, but the leading 's' is uppercase (Scsi_device) and should be lowercase (scsi_device). Fixed by this commit. Signed-off-by: John Pittman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt index 6338400eed73..2c31d9ee6776 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt @@ -319,12 +319,12 @@ struct Scsi_Host: instance. If the reference count reaches 0 then the given instance is freed -The Scsi_device structure has had reference counting infrastructure added. -This effectively spreads the ownership of struct Scsi_device instances +The scsi_device structure has had reference counting infrastructure added. +This effectively spreads the ownership of struct scsi_device instances across the various SCSI layers which use them. Previously such instances were exclusively owned by the mid level. See the access functions declared towards the end of include/scsi/scsi_device.h . If an LLD wants to keep -a copy of a pointer to a Scsi_device instance it should use scsi_device_get() +a copy of a pointer to a scsi_device instance it should use scsi_device_get() to bump its reference count. When it is finished with the pointer it can use scsi_device_put() to decrement its reference count (and potentially delete it).