tree 4596cd1ee2c896df4259ee2c75ad3b027b6f2469
parent 253d92371ca29a470b2bbf91fb9824a9fef05657
author Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net> 1328135762 +0000
committer Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> 1336602317 -0700

firewire: Move fw_card kref functions into linux/firewire.h

When writing a firewire driver that doesn't deal with struct fw_device
objects (e.g. it only publishes FireWire units and doesn't subscribe to
them), you likely need to keep referenced to struct fw_card objects so
that you can send messages to other nodes. This patch moves
fw_card_put(), fw_card_get() and fw_card_release() into the public
include/linux/firewire.h header instead of drivers/firewire/core.h, and
adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fw_card_release).

The firewire-sbp-target module requires these so it can keep a reference
to the fw_card object in order that it can fetch ORBs to execute and
read/write related data and status information.

Signed-off-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>