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From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>,
	Michael Walle <mwalle@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] nvmem: layouts: store owner from modules with nvmem_layout_driver_register()
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 09:16:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240402091644.35c7dac6@xps-13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240329-module-owner-nvmem-v1-1-d700685f08e1@linaro.org>

Hi Krzysztof,

krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org wrote on Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:13:35 +0100:

> Modules registering driver with nvmem_layout_driver_register() might
> forget to set .owner field.  The field is used by some of other kernel
> parts for reference counting (try_module_get()), so it is expected that
> drivers will set it.
> 
> Solve the problem by moving this task away from the drivers to the core
> code, just like we did for platform_driver in
> commit 9447057eaff8 ("platform_device: use a macro instead of
> platform_driver_register").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>

Thanks,
Miquèl

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-02  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-29 16:13 [PATCH 0/3] nvmem: layouts: store owner from modules with nvmem_layout_driver_register() Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-03-29 16:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-04-02  7:16   ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
2024-04-02  8:37   ` Michael Walle
2024-03-29 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] nvmem: layouts: onie-tlv: drop driver owner initialization Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-04-02  7:16   ` Miquel Raynal
2024-04-02  8:37   ` Michael Walle
2024-03-29 16:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvmem: layouts: sl28vpd: " Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-04-02  7:17   ` Miquel Raynal
2024-04-02  8:38   ` Michael Walle
2024-04-11 10:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] nvmem: layouts: store owner from modules with nvmem_layout_driver_register() Srinivas Kandagatla

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