Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-dev: Don't block the adapter from unregistering

[Viresh Kumar]

On 06-07-16, 17:04, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Exactly, so the stored address had better be correct, and in

No.

> that case there is no need for the new adapter_nr in every
> client, you could just go with client->adapter->nr instead.

client->adapter may be a dangling pointer at this point if the adapter
is freed, so we can't use that blindly for sure.

> Which just shows that the whole thing is fishy and that the
> adapter has to remain alive. BTW, is there any guarantee that
> adapter numbers will not get reused?

We are allocating them from idr and that will reuse them once they get
freed.

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viresh