Re: [PATCH] iio: Simplify IIO provider access locking mechanism

Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-01-09T15:55:06Z

On 01/09/2015 04:50 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 16:41 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 01/09/2015 04:38 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
>>> Instead of checking whether provider module is still
>>> loaded on every access to device just lock module to
>>> memory when client get reference to provider device.
>>>
>>
>> This has nothing to do with the module, it's about the device. In the Linux
>> device driver model as device can be unbound at any time and the IIO
>> framework needs to handle this.
>>
>
> Hm. Probably i am missing something here, but is this
> still true if we have reference to device structure?

Yes, that only prevents the memory of device from being freed. But the
device can still be unbound from the driver.

Think of e.g. a USB device that is pulled from the USB connector. Nothing
you can do in software about having the device disappear.

- Lars