Re: [QUESTION/sysfs] strange refcounting

["Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>]

Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> I actually forgot to formulate my question: why module's refcount is not 
> increased when somebody opens a sysfs file which belongs to this module? 
> How to withstan to an unexpected module unload?
> 
> Thanks.
I see this code drivers/base/core.c, device_add().

if (dev->driver)
	dev->uevent_attr.attr.owner = dev->driver->owner;

I assume it is expected that I must have a driver structure. But I 
don't. Why do I have to?

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.