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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
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: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:05:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302112005.35034.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360608173-12907-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru>

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.

	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-11 20:05 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 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-02-12  6:35   ` Re[2]: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-12 11:38     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-17  2:42 ` Dong Aisheng

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