Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] firewire: Move fw_card kref functions into linux/firewire.h

[Chris Boot]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Clemens Ladisch<clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Stefan Richter<stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

[snip]

Cheers,
Chris

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