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virtio: console: Reference counting portdev structs is not needed

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Explain in a comment why there's no need to reference-count the portdev
struct: when a device is yanked out, we can't do anything more with it
anyway so just give up doing anything more with the data or the vqs and
exit cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Amit Shah 2010-09-02 18:38:30 +05:30 committed by Rusty Russell
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@ -1738,6 +1738,14 @@ static void virtcons_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
unregister_chrdev(portdev->chr_major, "virtio-portsdev");
/*
* When yanking out a device, we immediately lose the
* (device-side) queues. So there's no point in keeping the
* guest side around till we drop our final reference. This
* also means that any ports which are in an open state will
* have to just stop using the port, as the vqs are going
* away.
*/
if (use_multiport(portdev)) {
struct port_buffer *buf;
unsigned int len;