Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:09:56 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/15] cpufreq: initialize drivers .owner field with THIS_MODULE | From | Viresh Kumar <> |
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On 31 July 2013 22:06, Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi Viresh, > > On 31 July 2013 19:49, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote: >> CPUFreq core does following at multiple places: >> module_{get|put}(cpufreq_driver->owner)). >> >> This is done to make sure module doesn't get unloaded if it is currently in use. >> This will work only if the .owner field of cpufreq driver is initialized with a >> valid pointer. >> >> This field wasn't initialized for many cpufreq driver, lets initialize it with >> THIS_MODULE. > > > Isn't it possible to do this inside cpufreq_register_driver function > in a similar way as done for platform_driver_register [1]. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/25/5
Don't know if its possible to set it to something other than THIS_MODULE. In which case we want something else to be done.
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