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| author | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2009-01-06 17:20:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2009-01-06 17:20:51 +0100 |
| commit | ff670e632e818535950d9e31d9d0dcfc7d5b4090 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ac6ade46bb9d2ae8578ed63fa8946f817749026 /drivers/ide | |
| parent | b65fac32cfe3b2f98cd472fef400bd1c1340de23 (diff) | |
ide: update ide_unregister() documentation
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ide')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/ide.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c index 9e403282dfa..6538b63158b 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -155,22 +155,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ide_port_unregister_devices); * ide_unregister - free an IDE interface * @hwif: IDE interface * - * Perform the final unregister of an IDE interface. At the moment - * we don't refcount interfaces so this will also get split up. + * Perform the final unregister of an IDE interface. * * Locking: - * The caller must not hold the IDE locks - * The drive present/vanishing is not yet properly locked - * Take care with the callbacks. These have been split to avoid - * deadlocking the IDE layer. The shutdown callback is called - * before we take the lock and free resources. It is up to the - * caller to be sure there is no pending I/O here, and that - * the interface will not be reopened (present/vanishing locking - * isn't yet done BTW). After we commit to the final kill we - * call the cleanup callback with the ide locks held. + * The caller must not hold the IDE locks. * - * Unregister restores the hwif structures to the default state. - * This is raving bonkers. + * It is up to the caller to be sure there is no pending I/O here, + * and that the interface will not be reopened (present/vanishing + * locking isn't yet done BTW). */ void ide_unregister(ide_hwif_t *hwif) |