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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5] staging: vme: add functions for bridge module refcounting
Hey Martyn,

Thanks for testing this out. Sorry for the inactivity last week, I have been
busy with some unrelated work. I will resend the patches by the end of this
week with the correct fixes.

Thanks again!

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:24:59PM +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> On 13/08/11 08:47, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:30:49 +0200, Manohar Vanga wrote:
> >> + struct vme_bridge *bridge;
> >> +
> >> + mutex_lock(&vme_buses_lock);
> >> + list_for_each_entry(bridge, &vme_bus_list, bus_list) {
> >> + if (bridge->num == bus_id) {
> >> + if (!bridge->owner)
> >> + dev_warn(bridge->parent,
> >> + "bridge->owner not set\n");
> >
> > Don't do this; it will throw a false warning if the kernel is
> > built without module support. Note that in that case
> >
> > THIS_MODULE == (struct module *)0.
> >
> > try_module_get() and module_put() do the right thing for all
> > possible configs. Trust them.
> >
>
> I can confirm that this does break when the bridge is compiled into the kernel.
>
> Martyn
>
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/manohar


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