Re: [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref

[Jiri Slaby]

On 12/04/2008 01:44 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Nothing takes a ref on virtio_pci, so even if you have
> devices in use, rmmod will attempt to unload the module.

It unbinds the device properly as any other driver. So what's the problem here?

> Fix by simply making each device take a ref on the module.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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