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From: "Alexander Shiyan" <shc_work@mail.ru>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Dong Aisheng" <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>,
	"Samuel Ortiz" <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"Mark Brown" <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re[2]: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:35:35 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360650935.475602112@f368.mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201302112005.35034.arnd@arndb.de>

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Hello.

> On Monday 11 February 2013, 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.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
> 
> Can you describe a scenario where that would happen? Normally the
> module should stay pinned as long as any other module refers
> to its exported symbols.

Probably I wrote a bad description.
The driver registered by "postcore_initcall". Therefore, if we unregister the
driver, we have no way to register it back. Fixme please.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-12  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-11 18:42 [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-11 18:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mfd: syscon: Removed unneeded field "dev" from private driver structure Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-17  2:57   ` Dong Aisheng
2013-02-11 18:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mfd: syscon: Add non-DT support Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-11 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-12  6:35   ` Alexander Shiyan [this message]
2013-02-12 11:38     ` Re[2]: " Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-17  2:42 ` Dong Aisheng

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