Re: refcounting drivers' data structures used in sysfs buffers

Oliver Neukum
2007-03-09T17:18:59Z

Am Freitag, 9. März 2007 18:02 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:

> I think we already have all refcounting that is needed. What is
> missing is subsystem-provided ->release() hooks for drivers to release
> driver-specific resources when a device finally goes away.

This is an interesting idea. Is it nice to pass through release()
but not open() ?

Regards
Oliver