linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pwm: Fill in missing .owner fields

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Message-ID: <20130613182330.GA32574@mithrandir>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:23:31 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Cc:	Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...aro.org>, linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: Fill in missing .owner fields

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:33:13AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 06/12/2013 09:59 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 05:05:18PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:
> >> Hi Thierry,
> >>
> >> On 12 June 2013 16:59, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com> wrote:
> >>> Some drivers don't set the .owner fields of the struct device_driver or
> >>> struct pwm_ops, which causes the module usage count to become wrong.
> >>
> >>
> >> Recently a patch [1] was added to solve this issue of missing .owner
> >> fileds in struct platform_driver.
> > 
> > Yes I saw that, but thought it might be good to initialize them anyway.
> > Especially since a couple of the drivers are I2C and I believe there's
> > no similar patch for those. It shouldn't be difficult to come up with
> > the corresponding patch, though.
> 
> I2C had the same actually for quite some time now.

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for educating me. =)

Thierry

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