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Message-ID: <94b4ef23-282d-44e4-d21e-60c8a33c342c@enpas.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:26:26 +0200
From: Max Staudt <max@...as.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc: axboe@...nel.dk, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de, schmitzmic@...il.com,
geert@...ux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ata/pata_buddha: Probe via modalias instead of
initcall
On 08/12/2019 02:15 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> What's a good way to do that, given that we now have module_exit()> defined and an exit function is void?
>
> What about something like this:
>
> static bool xsurf_present;
> ...
> static int __init pata_buddha_late_init(void)
> ...
> if (pata_buddha_probe(z, &xsurf_ent) == 0 &&
> xsurf_present == false)
> xsurf_present = true;
> ...
> static void __exit pata_buddha_exit(void)
> ...
> if (xsurf_present)
> return -EBUSY;
> ...
>
> ?
Okay, so we're talking about the same idea. Great!
Unfortunately, pata_buddha_exit() is void, and thus can't fail. According to Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst this is by design.
Any other ideas? We could also continue to disallow unloading completely until MFD support comes along.
Max
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