On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Alan Stern wrote: > As part of the removal of get_driver()/put_driver(), this patch > (as1511) changes all the places that add dynamic IDs for drivers. > Since these additions are done by writing to the drivers' sysfs > attribute files, and the attributes are removed when the drivers are > unregistered, there is no reason to take an extra reference to the > drivers. > > The one exception is the pci-stub driver, which calls pci_add_dynid() > as part of its registration. But again, there's no reason to take an > extra reference here, because the driver can't be unloaded while it is > being registered. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> > CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> > CC: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> > CC: Jesse Barnes <jbar...@virtuousgeek.org> > CC: Dominik Brodowski <li...@dominikbrodowski.net>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> for the drivers/hid part. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
