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| author | Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net> | 2012-02-01 22:36:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> | 2012-05-09 15:25:17 -0700 |
| commit | fc5f80b152896c1ffded2a91d11dcb08ffcffebb (patch) | |
| tree | 4596cd1ee2c896df4259ee2c75ad3b027b6f2469 /drivers/firewire/core-card.c | |
| parent | 253d92371ca29a470b2bbf91fb9824a9fef05657 (diff) | |
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firewire: Move fw_card kref functions into linux/firewire.h
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@bootc.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firewire/core-card.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firewire/core-card.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/core-card.c b/drivers/firewire/core-card.c index cc595eba7ba9..f5552b362efc 100644 --- a/drivers/firewire/core-card.c +++ b/drivers/firewire/core-card.c @@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ void fw_card_release(struct kref *kref) complete(&card->done); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fw_card_release); void fw_core_remove_card(struct fw_card *card) { |