From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>,
linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: Fill in missing .owner fields
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:33:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B8F729.7030907@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130612195917.GA31835@mithrandir>
On 06/12/2013 09:59 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 05:05:18PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:
>> Hi Thierry,
>>
>> On 12 June 2013 16:59, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Some drivers don't set the .owner fields of the struct device_driver or
>>> struct pwm_ops, which causes the module usage count to become wrong.
>>
>>
>> Recently a patch [1] was added to solve this issue of missing .owner
>> fileds in struct platform_driver.
>
> Yes I saw that, but thought it might be good to initialize them anyway.
> Especially since a couple of the drivers are I2C and I believe there's
> no similar patch for those. It shouldn't be difficult to come up with
> the corresponding patch, though.
I2C had the same actually for quite some time now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-12 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-12 11:29 [PATCH] pwm: Fill in missing .owner fields Thierry Reding
2013-06-12 11:35 ` Sachin Kamat
2013-06-12 19:59 ` Thierry Reding
2013-06-12 21:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-12 22:33 ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2013-06-13 18:23 ` Thierry Reding
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