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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:21:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <512851E0.7000808@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361596520-19332-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru>

On 02/22/2013 10:15 PM, 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.

Why not fix the clients to module_get() at the appropriate times; then
you could still allow unloading, couldn't you?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-23  5:15 Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-23  5:15 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] mfd: syscon: Removed unneeded field "dev" from private driver structure Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-23  5:15 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] mfd: syscon: Add non-DT support Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-23  5:21 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-02-23  5:28   ` Re[2]: [PATCH v5 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-23 23:51     ` Stephen Warren
2013-02-24  7:55       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2013-02-25  6:53         ` Re[2]: " Alexander Shiyan
2013-02-25  7:07           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2013-02-23 22:17 ` Arnd Bergmann

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