From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932229Ab3BKUFp (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:05:45 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:60120 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932087Ab3BKUFo (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:05:44 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Alexander Shiyan Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:05:34 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.8.0-5-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dong Aisheng , Samuel Ortiz , Mark Brown References: <1360608173-12907-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <1360608173-12907-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201302112005.35034.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:4dEjkb1r+pIKaRi2D9jwvXjp/Wlcn8EzzAckMbvX2Vh ZNqAS8wBoOfRfmOvOMDrEr19oytMGkbWgM8XgnANb1mT3chJ5z 6PaSSD2PhP8q127FnEhtiTxY7o4PkV8FbUXpTdZDgNBDSEFnUn 0wDaPARa4mI7DgfVE5sxwUu0dPSxSP39iWgcVk9iA/Tt6WHX0Y 8nOd3bmO8io9dmvYmu/zE0acpTE7vwWlloBiiiXVTNsGJTPcxI ECGYT5PUE028t241pOQBPv6TFh+xy0SU6i08nnrkFjv0BPWA5I Ti9XJAeSh59gvwb/3lfrcqRpKNCv5mg0PhO3wBEie3mZ3b05EV Q3IywtLXIZkzmg+C6vjo= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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