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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fjortis.info>
Cc: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Writing modules for 2.5
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:58:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030415135829.D32468@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030415121517.GA23894@foo>; from andreas@fjortis.info on Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:15:18PM +0200

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:15:18PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:05:48PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > Next question:  what is the correct replacement for MOD_INC_USE_COUNT?
> 
> "SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);" or simply "dev->owner=THIS_MODULE;" and the
> counting should then be done automatically AFAIK.

You don't need that for char drivers.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-15 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <yw1x7k9w9flm.fsf@zaphod.guide.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-04-15 11:28 ` Writing modules for 2.5 Andi Kleen
2003-04-15 12:00   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-15 12:05     ` Andi Kleen
2003-04-15 12:05   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-15 11:35     ` Alan Cox
2003-04-15 12:39       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-15 12:57         ` Russell King
2003-04-15 13:24           ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 15:42           ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-15 21:31             ` Russell King
2003-04-15 14:24         ` Alan Cox
2003-04-15 12:15     ` Andreas Henriksson
2003-04-15 12:30       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-15 12:58       ` Russell King [this message]
2003-04-15 11:15 Måns Rullgård
2003-04-15 14:24 ` Jonathan Corbet
2003-04-15 20:43 ` Sam Ravnborg

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