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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2008-01-31 12:39:38 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-02-03 02:14:49 +0300
commit0c98b19fe571ede1f14bd95b855bcbe2cca99bcf (patch)
tree388875be014f29a9f68c89144925d68542c42a4a /drivers/base/core.c
parent44414e14af3f18fc8c1b94e259cd760366f665ee (diff)
downloadlinux-0c98b19fe571ede1f14bd95b855bcbe2cca99bcf.tar.xz
Driver core: Remove unneeded get_{device,driver}() calls.
Driver core: Remove unneeded get_{device,driver}() calls. Code trying to add/remove attributes must hold a reference to the device resp. driver anyway, so let's remove those reference count games. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index a0cfda553c9d..9c0070b5bd3e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -423,10 +423,8 @@ struct kset *devices_kset;
int device_create_file(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr)
{
int error = 0;
- if (get_device(dev)) {
+ if (dev)
error = sysfs_create_file(&dev->kobj, &attr->attr);
- put_device(dev);
- }
return error;
}
@@ -437,10 +435,8 @@ int device_create_file(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr)
*/
void device_remove_file(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr)
{
- if (get_device(dev)) {
+ if (dev)
sysfs_remove_file(&dev->kobj, &attr->attr);
- put_device(dev);
- }
}
/**