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From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
To: Davide Rossetti <davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rmmod while module is in use
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:11:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uacq35o2j.fsf@zork.zork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4214926B.3030707@roma1.infn.it> (Davide Rossetti's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:47:39 +0100")

Davide Rossetti <davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it> writes:

> maybe RTFM...
> a module:
> - char device driver for..
> - a PCI device

Setting the 'owner' field of your char device's file_operations
structure to THIS_MODULE should be sufficient to enable the kernel to
manage the reference count for you.  This is the "magic" referred to
in linux-os's reply.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-17 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-17 12:47 Davide Rossetti
2005-02-17 13:04 ` linux-os
2005-02-17 13:11 ` Sean Neakums [this message]
2005-02-17 14:40 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-02-17 14:48   ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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