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
next prev 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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