staging: comedi: set hw_dev in comedi_alloc_board_minor()
Call `comedi_set_hw_dev()` to set the `hw_dev` member of `struct comedi_device` in `comedi_alloc_board_minor()` instead of in `comedi_auto_config()`. Don't bother to check for an error returned by `comedi_set_hw_dev()` here; it only fails when changing a non-NULL pointer to a different non-NULL pointer and since the `struct comedi_device` has just been allocated and initialized, its `hw_dev` will be NULL already. Calling `comedi_set_hw_dev()` with a non-NULL hardware device pointer increments the kref counter for the hardware device. If `comedi_alloc_board_minor()` fails further down the function, we rely on its call to `comedi_device_cleanup()` to call `comedi_clear_hw_dev()` (via `comedi_device_detach()` and `cleanup_device()`) to clear `hw_dev` and decrement its kref counter. (That's the "beneficial side-effect" mentioned in the patch that replaced `__comedi_device_detach()`.) Remove the call to `comedi_set_hw_dev()` from `comedi_auto_config()` as the call to `comedi_alloc_board_minor()` does it for us. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Reviewed-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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