Re: [PATCH 2.5.60 5/9] Update the Archimedes parallel port driver for new module API.

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:04:24 +0000


On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:37:00PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> -static void arc_inc_use_count(void)
> +static int arc_inc_use_count(void)
> {
> -#ifdef MODULE
> - MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
> -#endif
> + return try_module_get(THIS_MODULE);
> }

Isn't one of the points of the module system that we don't try to run
code inside a module without the module being reference counted?

The normal way this is done is to add the module structure pointer into
a structure, and run try_module_get() from code external to the module
in question. The above method would seem to violate that.

Rusty - comments?

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