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SubjectRe: [patch] hdaps driver update.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:31:57PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 09:16 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > But you are reference counting a static object, right? Which
> > isn't the nicest thing to have done.
>
> I would not say it is not "the nicest thing", it is just not necessary
> to do the reference counting. But we want the ref counting for other
> reasons, so it seems sensible.

Like was mentioned, please use platform_device_register_simple()
instead, that's what it is there for.

> > No, if you have that .owner field in your driver, you get a symlink in
> > sysfs that points from your driver to the module that controls it. You
> > just removed that symlink, which is not what I think you wanted to have
> > happen :(
>
> But device release == module unload.

Sure.

> I am not following, sadly.

Load the version of the driver in 2.6.14-rc1. Look in the /sys/
directory for where your driver shows up. You should see a symlink
called "module" in there that points back to /sys/module/ for where your
module lives. That symlink was created by the fact that you had set the
.owner field in the struct device_driver.

Taking that field away like you did removes that symlink, which is not a
good thing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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