[PATCH 3/5] staging: vme: add functions for bridge module refcounting

[Emilio G. Cota]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:30:49 +0200, Manohar Vanga wrote:
> This patch adds functions that allow for reference counting
> bridge modules. The patch introduces the functions
> 'vme_bridge_get()' and 'vme_bridge_put()'.
(snip)
> +int vme_bridge_get(unsigned int bus_id)
(snip)
> +void vme_bridge_put(struct vme_bridge *bridge)

Note the input parameter imbalance; in fact this is serious
(see my email on patch 5) because _get() needs to acquire
vme_buses_lock, whereas _put() doesn't. Since a caller with
bridge has bridge->num, but the opposite doesn't hold (num
doesn't give you the bridge without acquiring vme_buses_lock),
it seems reasonable to me to take the bus_id as the input for
both functions, because the requirements on the caller are lower.

But the locking needs to be handled with care, see my reply
to patch 5.

		Emilio