Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:33:35 +0300 | From | "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <> | Subject | Re: [QUESTION/sysfs] strange refcounting |
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Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote: > I actually forgot to formulate my question: why module's refcount is not > increased when somebody opens a sysfs file which belongs to this module? > How to withstan to an unexpected module unload? > > Thanks. I see this code drivers/base/core.c, device_add().
if (dev->driver) dev->uevent_attr.attr.owner = dev->driver->owner;
I assume it is expected that I must have a driver structure. But I don't. Why do I have to?
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