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From: "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Incorrect uses of get_driver()/put_driver()
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:05:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120110000519.3d17e64e@milhouse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1201091520360.1541-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:44:24 -0500 (EST)
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Michael Büsch wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:48:15 -0500 (EST)
> > Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Maybe you want to call device_lock(&sdev->dev) here?  It will prevent
> > > the driver from being unbound (and therefore from being unloaded), and
> > > it's likely that sdrv's remove and probe routines expect to be called
> > > with this lock held, because that's what the device core does.  The
> > > drawback is that holding the lock prevents other things from happening
> > > as well, like unregistering sdev.
> > > 
> > > Alternatively, we can simply remove ssb_driver_get/put.
> > 
> > I think in practice it doesn't matter. This function is only
> > used in the rare case where the EEPROM on the board is written.
> 
> Okay, then we can just remove those calls and not worry about it for
> now, right?

This would be acceptable.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-09 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-05 16:31 Problems with get_driver() and driver_attach() (and new_id too) Alan Stern
2012-01-05 18:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-05 18:55   ` Alan Stern
2012-01-05 20:05     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-05 20:48       ` Alan Stern
2012-01-05 23:17         ` Greg KH
2012-01-06 14:42           ` Alan Stern
2012-01-06 15:42           ` Alan Stern
2012-01-06 20:29       ` Alan Stern
2012-01-09  8:48         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-09 16:37           ` Alan Stern
2012-01-09 16:50             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-09 17:01               ` Alan Stern
2012-01-09 17:05             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-09 17:35             ` Incorrect uses of get_driver()/put_driver() Alan Stern
2012-01-09 17:48               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-09 18:20                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-09 18:34                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-09 18:49                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-09 19:36                       ` Alan Stern
2012-01-09 18:03               ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-09 18:14                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-09 19:48                   ` Alan Stern
2012-01-09 20:07                     ` Michael Büsch
2012-01-09 22:44                       ` Alan Stern
2012-01-09 23:05                         ` Michael Büsch [this message]
2012-01-09 18:04               ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-10  9:05               ` Martin Schwidefsky
2012-01-10  9:20                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-01-10 10:03                   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2012-01-10 10:18                   ` Sebastian Ott
2012-01-10 10:21                 ` Sebastian Ott
2012-01-10 20:32                   ` Alan Stern

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