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    Dynamic ID addition doesn't need get_driver() · cef9bc56
    Alan Stern authored
    
    
    As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch
    (as1511) changes all the places that add dynamic IDs for drivers.
    Since these additions are done by writing to the drivers' sysfs
    attribute files, and the attributes are removed when the drivers are
    unregistered, there is no reason to take an extra reference to the
    drivers.
    
    The one exception is the pci-stub driver, which calls pci_add_dynid()
    as part of its registration.  But again, there's no reason to take an
    extra reference here, because the driver can't be unloaded while it is
    being registered.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
    CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
    CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
    CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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