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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
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To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:18:56 +0100
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Am Freitag, 9. März 2007 18:02 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:

> I think we already have all refcounting that is needed. What is
> missing is subsystem-provided ->release() hooks for drivers to release
> driver-specific resources when a device finally goes away.

This is an interesting idea. Is it nice to pass through release()
but not open() ?

	Regards
		Oliver