[PATCH] USB device reference counting api cleanup changes
This patch replaces the awkwardly named usb_inc_dev_use() and usb_dec_dev_use() with usb_get_dev() and usb_put_dev() to match the naming convention of the rest of the kernel's reference counted structures. It also does away with the special case of usb_free_dev(), and has usb_put_dev() be the same thing (through a #define, just like usb_free_urb() works.) Now when the last person calls usb_put_dev() or usb_free_dev() the structure is cleaned up. This allows the different host controller drivers to implement their logic differently if they want to (as they do), and everyone can be happy and stop arguing about the "proper" way to write their host controller drivers :)
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