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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading
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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?