staging: comedi: fix too early cleanup in comedi_auto_config()
`comedi_auto_config()` is usually called from the probe routine of a low-level comedi driver to allocate and auto-configure a comedi device. Part of this involves calling the low-level driver's `auto_attach()` handler, and if that is successful, `comedi_device_postconfig()` tries to complete the configuration of the comedi device. If either of those fail, `comedi_device_detach()` is called to clean up, and `comedi_release_hardware_device()` is called to remove the dynamically allocated comedi device. Unfortunately, `comedi_device_detach()` clears the `hw_dev` member of the `struct comedi_device` (indirectly via `comedi_clear_hw_dev()`), and that stops `comedi_release_hardware_device()` finding the comedi device associated with the hardware device, so the comedi device won't be removed properly. Since `comedi_release_hardware_device()` also calls `comedi_device_detach()` (assuming it finds the comedi device associated with the hardware device), the fix is to remove the direct call to `comedi_device_detach()` from `comedi_auto_config()` and let the call to `comedi_release_hardware_device()` take care of it. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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