Re: [PATCH v3, part1 06/10] PCI: make PCI host bridge/bus creatingand destroying logic symmetric

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch makes PCI host bridge/bus creating and destroying logic
> symmetric by using device_initialize()/device_add()/device_del()/put_device()
> pairs as discussed in thread at:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/22073
>
> It also fixes a bug in error recovery path in pci_create_root_bus()
> which may kfree() an in-use host bridge object.

Can you split out the bug fix into a separate patch, in case it's
something we want to backport by itself?  I'd do it myself, but I
didn't understand at a glance what the problem was.

Bjorn
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