Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:41:56 +0100 | From | Lars-Peter Clausen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iio: Simplify IIO provider access locking mechanism |
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On 01/09/2015 04:38 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote: > Instead of checking whether provider module is still > loaded on every access to device just lock module to > memory when client get reference to provider device. >
This has nothing to do with the module, it's about the device. In the Linux device driver model as device can be unbound at any time and the IIO framework needs to handle this.
- Lars
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