Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: Driver reference counting and locking, again | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:38:44 +0200 |
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Am Dienstag, 16. Juli 2002 02:56 schrieb Patrick Mochel: > Ok, here is another stab at trying to get reference counting and locking > right for drivers. > > The short of it is that struct device_driver gets an owner field, which > should be initialized to THIS_MODULE in the driver.
In your implementation it would seem that get_driver can suceed while remove_driver is already running and the deletion from bus_list has already happened.
Regards Oliver
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