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Message-ID: <1420818639.28652.5.camel@mm-sol.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:50:39 +0200
From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@...sol.com>
To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: Simplify IIO provider access locking mechanism
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 16:41 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 01/09/2015 04:38 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> > Instead of checking whether provider module is still
> > loaded on every access to device just lock module to
> > memory when client get reference to provider device.
> >
>
> This has nothing to do with the module, it's about the device. In the Linux
> device driver model as device can be unbound at any time and the IIO
> framework needs to handle this.
>
Hm. Probably i am missing something here, but is this
still true if we have reference to device structure?
Regards,
Ivan
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