From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752145AbbJWNFC (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:05:02 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:53314 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750942AbbJWNE6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:04:58 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Eric Auger , eric.auger@st.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, christoffer.dall@linaro.org, patches@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] vfio: platform: introduce vfio-platform-base module Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:04:43 +0200 Message-ID: <8949689.8EqFqDRsZI@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1445603835-14506-2-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> References: <1445603835-14506-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> <1445603835-14506-2-git-send-email-eric.auger@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:tTBvSsOPcWnA221qCtTyrtyI3aBSbUW5CmMSc0hGpVbRSvHLftz EIF8cDLnqNVIcSPds7YHsKznf6rS/4cacFyavfdzFnzSoG5W4MjJOh+Pt+GYsa468Snmjxg +tFz20YpPXtKZdaPz+vuQ9yvS/8U2xy0sgR7n3DuwIRl73r2yYGevUBAk6tom1cndN9gKme 8kNfcvigWmS4xK+goyFPA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:lSTFv4Nh+Mc=:K5or/Tgm1DDxG0+00KoX+2 cOCvhIBBOAIv/Z+/0nKhtyYE60qPI1GuDBqpYpWwws5VuQR2LXCCgHL2FSAQ+nEGRgj3A7CUE zqT9CdcMDIFh7fH449pjLzoOC2oKlx111RMhxvyaXc3mXMFRFaYJ1pSCYkPl9xQgvTyF1e0bd WB8YwnqAAH5mx8uoGeziyiOqqRQWLbXUgtzZxCn1aczV63MU5XqhH7W/zqGcm5/FiIEdaP4Ku eEIi83/2spJigxGYbAL912l6MAQ0ufcNt4XwKag59m3LLJAqOEfLVZCMNi80hliVilar7C2S6 VPdJ+L3LnVd9B8XHKz+cTTnLpJG9y10NSgslM+f/N3HFAVFbaZX4Ya2WjqnK1Prl8wd90pJCG OfC93FQCr6YeiGCmq3l2T3H2eN5lfqimSNWSdnWPUO5vIZr2nZI0bHlhjsbPFrk+T8IOoQNKi QgGiuxZqnEmQqCoYGzfFhgge9yufEmkaOCdWd2Axf58T6e+X5sD1PBXS6lOl0Cn051DJ46DS0 iGiKXCa8Q5cCzQYeUMoSPU7GoAoL2/kC9+nAT25jP5jgu2cTla+/qzgm7SSYgY95TvkxETrfE aM0SZEYrinStCi1bHOYyGOfmH8VGEEM6S0dNe+99AUrHJXloGY6EFfIcavRS795AXjLoJ1CQL MdFfEIggtb0OD3PzNh8aKoJXz77QiR69YTuBvac9vfLqHb1qdCDAy5NqckfHgqShv275aqSbz zgjFZlx2LW3gwhxL Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 23 October 2015 14:37:09 Eric Auger wrote: > To prepare for vfio platform reset rework let's build > vfio_platform_common.c and vfio_platform_irq.c in a separate > module from vfio-platform and vfio-amba. This makes possible > to have separate module inits and works around a race between > platform driver init and vfio reset module init: that way we > make sure symbols exported by base are available when vfio-platform > driver gets probed. > > The open/release being implemented in the base module, the ref > count is applied to the parent module instead. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Auger > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann > > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann