Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:18:21 +0000 | | From | Chris Boot <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] firewire: Move fw_card kref functions into linux/firewire.h |
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On 15/02/2012 19:10, Stefan Richter wrote: > On Feb 15 Chris Boot wrote: >> When writing a firewire driver that doesn't deal with struct fw_device >> objects (e.g. it only publishes FireWire units and doesn't subscribe to >> them), you likely need to keep referenced to struct fw_card objects so >> that you can send messages to other nodes. This patch moves >> fw_card_put(), fw_card_get() and fw_card_release() into the public >> include/linux/firewire.h header instead of drivers/firewire/core.h, and >> adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fw_card_release). >> >> The firewire-sbp-target module requires these so it can keep a reference >> to the fw_card object in order that it can fetch ORBs to execute and >> read/write related data and status information. >> >> Signed-off-by: Chris Boot<bootc@bootc.net> >> Cc: Clemens Ladisch<clemens@ladisch.de> > > Acked-by: Stefan Richter<stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Thanks!
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Cheers, Chris
-- Chris Boot bootc@bootc.net
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