From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Clarifying platform_device_unregister
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:07:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207397253.5021.23.camel@dax.rpnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45a44e480804011857v39e00f3ck53803cd43c34c7b0@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 21:57 -0400, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> I also have a followup. Does corgi/spitz_pm need to manage the module
> refcount of sharpsl-pm? I couldn't find any platform device code that
> manages the refcount of the platform driver that it binds them to. So
> I suspect this means that platform devices must do the try_module_get
> stuff themselves. Out of curiosity, what's the reason for not doing
> this inside the base/platform.c code?
I don't think any refcount is needed since corgi/spitz_pm refer to
functions in sharpsl-pm and therefore sharpsl-pm will always be around
as long as corgi/spitz_pm is.
Regards,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-05 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 1:14 Clarifying platform_device_unregister Jaya Kumar
2008-04-01 5:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-04-01 7:47 ` Jaya Kumar
2008-04-01 14:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-04-02 1:57 ` Jaya Kumar
2008-04-05 12:07 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2008-04-05 11:44 ` Richard Purdie
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