[PATCH net 000/117] net: avoid to remove module when its debugfs is being used

[Steve deRosier]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 3:22 AM Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 19:15 +0900, Taehee Yoo wrote:
> >
> > Okay, as you mentioned earlier in 001/117 patch thread,
> > I will squash patches into per-driver/subsystem then send them as v2.
>
> Give me a bit. I think I figured out a less intrusive way that at least
> means we don't have to do it if the fops doesn't have ->release(), which
> is the vast majority.
>

While I'm all for a patch that fixes something at a single level
instead of touching 100s of files, let me ask a loosely related, but
more basic, question: Should `->owner` be set properly in each driver?
 Or the flip of that, should we be considering that it isn't a
semantic error? I don't know the answer myself, I just thought to ask
the question.

IMHO, if true that `->owner` should be set for "correctness", and even
if we fix the debugfs problem elsewhere, perhaps this series (squashed
of course) should be merged.

- Steve