Re: [PATCH 00/15] cpufreq: initialize drivers .owner field with THIS_MODULE

[Sachin Kamat]

Hi Viresh,

On 31 July 2013 19:49, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> CPUFreq core does following at multiple places:
> module_{get|put}(cpufreq_driver->owner)).
>
> This is done to make sure module doesn't get unloaded if it is currently in use.
> This will work only if the .owner field of cpufreq driver is initialized with a
> valid pointer.
>
> This field wasn't initialized for many cpufreq driver, lets initialize it with
> THIS_MODULE.


Isn't it possible to do this inside cpufreq_register_driver function
in a similar way as done for platform_driver_register [1].

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/25/5

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With warm regards,
Sachin
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