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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] cpufreq: Tegra: initialize .owner field with THIS_MODULE
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:13:09 -0600
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On 07/31/2013 08:19 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> CPUFreq core does following at multiple places:
> module_{get|put}(cpufreq_driver->owner)).
> 
> This is done to make sure module doesn't get unloaded if it is currently in use.
> This will work only if the .owner field of cpufreq driver is initialized with a
> valid pointer.
> 
> This field wasn't initialized for this driver, lets initialize it with
> THIS_MODULE.

Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>

I assume this is all part of a series you'll take through the cpufreq tree.