Re: [Patch -mm 3/3] RFC: Introduce kobject->owner for refcounting.

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:36:27PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> Grab and release the module kobject refcount if kobj->owner is set.
> This prevents calls to the release function after the module has
> been unloaded.

But doesn't this cause reference counts to be grabbed on modules that
don't want them?  (like network drivers)?

I don't understand what exactly you are trying to protect from here.
Especially as Tejun just ripped the lifetime rules between sysfs and
kobjects apart.

thanks,

greg k-h
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