[PATCH v2] hsi: omap_ssi_port: use normal module refcounting
Sebastian Reichel
sre at kernel.org
Wed Jun 4 16:48:46 PDT 2014
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:00:59AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ref_module() function is used for internal housekeeping of the
> module code, it's not normally used by subsystems or device drivers,
> and the use of ref_module in the omap_ssi_port driver causes a link
> build error when modules are disabled:
>
> hsi/controllers/omap_ssi_port.c: In function 'ssi_port_probe':
> hsi/controllers/omap_ssi_port.c:1119:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'ref_module' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>
> This changes the omap_ssi_port driver to use try_module_get()
> and module_put() instead, which is the normal way to ensure that
> the driver providing a device used in another module does not
> go away.
Thanks, applied:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-hsi.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=b357d7b58f379ebe8038cd97b6204f2f5c52220d
-- Sebastian
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