[PATCH 3/5] staging: vme: add functions for bridge module refcounting

[Manohar Vanga]

Hey Martyn,

Thanks for testing this out. Sorry for the inactivity last week, I have been
busy with some unrelated work. I will resend the patches by the end of this
week with the correct fixes.

Thanks again!

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:24:59PM +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> On 13/08/11 08:47, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:30:49 +0200, Manohar Vanga wrote:
> >> +	struct vme_bridge *bridge;
> >> +
> >> +	mutex_lock(&vme_buses_lock);
> >> +	list_for_each_entry(bridge, &vme_bus_list, bus_list) {
> >> +		if (bridge->num == bus_id) {
> >> +			if (!bridge->owner)
> >> +				dev_warn(bridge->parent,
> >> +					"bridge->owner not set\n");
> > 
> > Don't do this; it will throw a false warning if the kernel is
> > built without module support. Note that in that case
> > 
> > 	THIS_MODULE == (struct module *)0.
> > 
> > try_module_get() and module_put() do the right thing for all
> > possible configs. Trust them.
> > 
> 
> I can confirm that this does break when the bridge is compiled into the kernel.
> 
> Martyn
> 
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/manohar