usbatm : modprobe & rmmod
Roman Kagan
rkagan at mail.ru
Tue Jan 25 04:53:40 EST 2005
Hi,
Given that the main development now concentrated on usbatm2, I decided
to give usb_atm another try, just for the sake of completing the
experiment.
I've tried to do what Matthieu suggested and marry the best of the two
approaches: the control and flexibility of the former and the subdriver
infrastructure facilitating the code sharing of the latter.
In a few words, the subdriver now registers a struct usbatm_driver with
usbatm_init at probe time, and, once the device is ready for ATM, calls
usbatm_atm_setup to create an ATM device.
The subdriver must provide a ->cleanup function to be called when the last
reference to it is dropped. Also it may call usbatm_heavy_init to do
lengthy initialization, in which case it must provide a ->heavy_init
function, which will be run in a separate thread.
All the bookkeeping is done in usb_atm, including the refcounting for
the heavy_init thread (I didn't dare to switch to synchronous thread
shutdown). I also had to play a little trick to make the ATM layer own
the reference to the subdriver, rather than to usb_atm.
The updated cxacru seems to behave well under various conditions,
including disconnect, module unloading, etc.
Please feel free to comment (or to ignore :).
Thanks,
Roman.
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