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From: "Alexander Shiyan" <shc_work@mail.ru>
To: "Stephen Warren" <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Dong Aisheng" <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>,
	"Samuel Ortiz" <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"Mark Brown" <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	"Thierry Reding" <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re[2]: [PATCH v5 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:28:28 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361597308.137178281@f2.mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512851E0.7000808@wwwdotorg.org>

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> On 02/22/2013 10:15 PM, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > The driver can be used in various subsystems and therefore should not
> > be unloaded when it is defined in the kernel configuration, so remove
> > support for unloading it.
> 
> Why not fix the clients to module_get() at the appropriate times; then
> you could still allow unloading, couldn't you?

I has explain this before. Driver defined as "bool" and loaded via postcore_initcall.
Once loaded it should not be unloaded, in other case it have not way to be loaded back.
I am correctly understand your question?
Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-23  5:15 [PATCH v5 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-23  5:15 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] mfd: syscon: Removed unneeded field "dev" from private driver structure Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-23  5:15 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] mfd: syscon: Add non-DT support Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-23  5:21 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading Stephen Warren
2013-02-23  5:28   ` Alexander Shiyan [this message]
2013-02-23 23:51     ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-24  7:55       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2013-02-25  6:53         ` Re[2]: " Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-25  7:07           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2013-02-23 22:17 ` Arnd Bergmann

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