Re: Driverfs updates

[Thunder from the hill]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
> struct device_driver * get_driver(struct device_driver * drv)
> {
 +        struct device_driver *ret = NULL;
 +
 +        if (!drv)
 +                goto out;
 +        lock_somehow(drv->lock);
 +        if (drv->owner)
>                 if (!try_inc_mod_count(drv->owner))
 +                        goto out;
 +
 +        ret = drv;
 + out:
 +        unlock_somehow(drv->lock);
 +        return ret;
> }
> 
> I suggest you add a global driverfs_lock.

Better than locking all kernel threads, isn't it?

							Regards,
							Thunder
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