libata: transport: Remove circular dependency at free time
Without this patch, failed probe would not free resources like irq. ata port tdev object currently hold a reference to the ata port object. Therefore the ata port object release function will not get called until the ata_tport_release is called. But that would never happen, releasing the last reference of ata port dev is done by scsi_host_release, which is called by ata_host_release when the ata port object is released. The ata device objects actually do not need to explicitly hold a reference to their real counterpart, given the transport objects are the children of these objects and device_add() is call for each child. We know the parent will not be deleted until we call the child's device_del(). Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com> Tested-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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