Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Having stared sleepily at the code for several evenings I see no way in
> > which serial_driver.refcount can be non-zero while serial.o's module
> > refcount is zero. But it happened.
>
> Is it possible to replace serial_driver.refcount with calls to
> GET_USE_COUNT()? No need to have two refcounts for the same thing,
> usually...
I'm a frayed knot. The refcounts are owned by the device driver but are
exported to and manipulated by the tty layer. They must exist whether
or not the driver is within a module. Similar to net_device.refcnt.
Now, could the module refcount be replaced by a callback called
"i_want_to_unload_you_is_this_ok()"? And could that function test the
tty-layer refcount for zeroness and if true, mark the module as dead and
return TRUE? Now you're talking.
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