On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Regarding patches 3 and 4, it might be easier to just store a pointer >> to the relevant encoder when you verify ATIF rather than walking the >> encoder list every time. > > Makes sense, I was unsure about the lifetime of the encoders, but > AFAICS they're destroyed only when the module in unloaded.
They are present for the life of the driver. Alex