[PATCH] Removal of MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT in ide-cs

[Russell King]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:08:32PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> The "ide-cs" module cannot be unloaded because it used obsolete
> MOD_INC_USE_COUNT and MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT macros.  In fact, they are not
> needed in 2.6 kernel.  The generic PCMCIA code already increases use count
> for every device served by the driver, so it's impossible to unload the
> ide-cs driver while it's in use.

Last I heard, it was unsafe to remove IDE interfaces, so these obsolete
macros were kept to remind people of that fact.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core