At Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:03:33 +0100, Levente Kurusa wrote:
This is required so that we give up the last reference to the device.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa levex@linux.com
Hmm, I see no merit by this patch. It's an error path and the device is referenced from nowhere, thus we don't care its refcount any longer from there. Any missing point?
thanks,
Takashi
sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c index bf578ba2..55186f8 100644 --- a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c +++ b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c @@ -1964,6 +1964,7 @@ static int snd_ac97_dev_register(struct snd_device *device) snd_ac97_get_short_name(ac97)); if ((err = device_register(&ac97->dev)) < 0) { snd_printk(KERN_ERR "Can't register ac97 bus\n");
put_device(&ac97->dev);-- 1.8.3.1