On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:36:27PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > Grab and release the module kobject refcount if kobj->owner is set. > This prevents calls to the release function after the module has > been unloaded.
But doesn't this cause reference counts to be grabbed on modules that don't want them? (like network drivers)? I don't understand what exactly you are trying to protect from here. Especially as Tejun just ripped the lifetime rules between sysfs and kobjects apart. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/