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SubjectRe: kref refcounting breakage in mainline
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:19:20AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 01:06 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > That's good. But why don't we have a module name for this driver?
> >
> > And if we don't have a module name, why would there be a symlink to
> > remove? That's what is keeping your module from unloading, right?
>
> You keep saying "module", and that's making me a bit nervous ;-)
>
> Just to be sure we're not talking past each other, when you say module,
> don't mean the modprobe kind... i hope. This "module" as in driver is
> compiled in. (said that before, but you may have missed it)

Ahh, that changes everything here, thanks for letting me know, I had
missed this.

The problem is that the module_init() is failing, yet this isn't really
a module, it's built into the kernel. So some of the module teardown
logic is dieing when it thinks that we really have a full module
structure here (owner and such).

I'll look at this further tomorrow, as I'm travelling pretty much all
day today, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h
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