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firewire: Move fw_card kref functions into linux/firewire.h

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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>
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Chris Boot 2012-02-01 22:36:02 +00:00 • committed by Nicholas Bellinger
parent 253d92371c
commit fc5f80b152
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@ -135,6 +135,20 @@ struct fw_card {
__be32 maint_utility_register;
};
static inline struct fw_card *fw_card_get(struct fw_card *card)
{
kref_get(&card->kref);
return card;
}
void fw_card_release(struct kref *kref);
static inline void fw_card_put(struct fw_card *card)
{
kref_put(&card->kref, fw_card_release);
}
struct fw_attribute_group {
struct attribute_group *groups[2];
struct attribute_group group;