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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio/virtio.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c index bf7ff3934d7f..59e36ef4920f 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c @@ -303,11 +303,21 @@ void unregister_virtio_driver(struct virtio_driver *driver) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_virtio_driver); +/** + * register_virtio_device - register virtio device + * @dev : virtio device to be registered + * + * On error, the caller must call put_device on &@dev->dev (and not kfree), + * as another code path may have obtained a reference to @dev. + * + * Returns: 0 on suceess, -error on failure + */ int register_virtio_device(struct virtio_device *dev) { int err; dev->dev.bus = &virtio_bus; + device_initialize(&dev->dev); /* Assign a unique device index and hence name. */ err = ida_simple_get(&virtio_index_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -330,9 +340,11 @@ int register_virtio_device(struct virtio_device *dev) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->vqs); - /* device_register() causes the bus infrastructure to look for a - * matching driver. */ - err = device_register(&dev->dev); + /* + * device_add() causes the bus infrastructure to look for a matching + * driver. + */ + err = device_add(&dev->dev); if (err) ida_simple_remove(&virtio_index_ida, dev->index); out: |