On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Davide Rossetti wrote:
> maybe RTFM...
> a module:
> - char device driver for..
> - a PCI device
>
> any clue as to how to protect from module unloading while there is still some
> process opening it??? have I to sleep in the remove_one() pci driver function
> till last process closes its file descriptor???
>
> static void __devexit apedev_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> {
> ApeDev* apedev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> if(test_bit(APEDEV_FLAG_OPEN, &apedev->flags)) {
> PERROR("still open flag on!!! (flags=0x%08x)\n", apedev->flags);
>
> // sleep here till it gets closed...
>
> }
> ...
> }
>
> static struct pci_driver apedev_driver = {
> .name = DEVNAME,
> .id_table = apedev_pci_tbl,
> .probe = apedev_init_one,
> .remove = __devexit_p(apedev_remove_one),
> };
Add .module = THIS_MODULE to your file_operations.
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