Re: Driver reference counting and locking, again

Oliver Neukum (oliver@neukum.name)
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:38:44 +0200

Am Dienstag, 16. Juli 2002 02:56 schrieb Patrick Mochel:
> Ok, here is another stab at trying to get reference counting and locking
> right for drivers.
>
> The short of it is that struct device_driver gets an owner field, which
> should be initialized to THIS_MODULE in the driver.

In your implementation it would seem that get_driver can suceed while
remove_driver is already running and the deletion from bus_list has
already happened.

Regards
Oliver

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