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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:23:13 +0100
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To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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Subject: Re: watchdog infrastructure
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
> > - You need to get the module reference count before calling any
> >   watchdog operation, the best place for this is probably the
> >   open() fop.

Huh?  Just set ->owner in file_operations and be done with that.