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| author | John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com> | 2017-11-22 12:56:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2017-12-02 08:43:43 -0700 |
| commit | a08415ea2a8b3f0173fd0612317d5cba5b57fedb (patch) | |
| tree | 36488517a1b710be98348ff66f57ce6a2b0e820b /Documentation/scsi | |
| parent | 0f83aaa3c07a46b41b2d5d8ee6b88617eb2c2f09 (diff) | |
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scsi: documentation: Fix case of 'scsi_device' struct mention(s)
In scsi_mid_low_api.txt a the scsi_device structure is mentioned
several times, but the leading 's' is uppercase (Scsi_device)
and should be lowercase (scsi_device). Fixed by this commit.
Signed-off-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/scsi')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt index 6338400eed73..2c31d9ee6776 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt @@ -319,12 +319,12 @@ struct Scsi_Host: instance. If the reference count reaches 0 then the given instance is freed -The Scsi_device structure has had reference counting infrastructure added. -This effectively spreads the ownership of struct Scsi_device instances +The scsi_device structure has had reference counting infrastructure added. +This effectively spreads the ownership of struct scsi_device instances across the various SCSI layers which use them. Previously such instances were exclusively owned by the mid level. See the access functions declared towards the end of include/scsi/scsi_device.h . If an LLD wants to keep -a copy of a pointer to a Scsi_device instance it should use scsi_device_get() +a copy of a pointer to a scsi_device instance it should use scsi_device_get() to bump its reference count. When it is finished with the pointer it can use scsi_device_put() to decrement its reference count (and potentially delete it). |
