On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:05:50AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > I agree the NCR_700_release should be the last method called. However, > the NCR_700_detect() API calls scsi_host_alloc/scsi_add_host() ... the > API will be horribly assymetric (and thus prone to misuse) with regard > to the host lifetime management if the NCR_700_release() method doesn't > tidy up the host. > > I can go either way, but either the alloc/add has to come out of the > detect method or the put has to go into the release method.
It's already asymmetric -- scsi_remove_host is called by the front end driver, and that's the opposite to scsi_add_host, which is done in NCR_700_detect. -- "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
