Michael Ellerman writes: > When I changed irq_alloc_host() to take an of_node > (52964f87c64e6c6ea671b5bf3030fb1494090a48: "Add an > optional device_node pointer to the irq_host"), > I botched the reference counting semantics. > > Stephen pointed out that it's irq_alloc_host()'s > business if it needs to take an additional reference > to the device_node, the caller shouldn't need to care. > To make that clean we also need a free routine, so > the caller doesn't have to deal with dropping the > reference. > > Luckily we now have an irq_free_host() where we can > drop the reference - so we can make the reference > counting internal to irq_alloc_host()/irq_free_host().
Is this needed for 2.6.26? What's the worst possible effect of this bug? Paul. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
