Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:52:37 +0300 | From | Anssi Hannula <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] usb/hid: The HID Simple Driver Interface 0.3.2 (core) |
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Liyu wrote: > Anssi Hannula wrote: >> One possibility is to do that with symbol_request() and friends. That >> would not be pretty though, imho. >> >> DVB subsystem uses that currently to load frontend modules dynamically, >> see dvb_attach() and dvb_frontend_detach() in >> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.h and >> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c. >> >> > This means also can load module dynamically. In apparently, I think it > have two weaknesses: > > 1. It require module have one exported symbol at least.
True.
> 2. We must handle life cycle of module by myself.
We need to handle reference count, yes.
> Is it right? > > Goodluck > > -Liyu >
-- Anssi Hannula
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