Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: syscon: Removed support for unloading

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Feb 11 2013 - 15:05:49 EST


On Monday 11 February 2013, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> The driver can be used in various subsystems and therefore should not
> be unloaded when it is defined in the kernel configuration, so remove
> support for unloading it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@xxxxxxx>

Can you describe a scenario where that would happen? Normally the
module should stay pinned as long as any other module refers
to its exported symbols.

Arnd
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