Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iio: Simplify IIO provider access locking mechanism | From | "Ivan T. Ivanov" <> | Date | Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:50:39 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 16:41 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > 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. >
Hm. Probably i am missing something here, but is this still true if we have reference to device structure?
Regards, Ivan
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