Re: [PATCH] iio: Simplify IIO provider access locking mechanism

[Ivan T. Ivanov]

On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 16:41 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 01/09/2015 04:38 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> > Instead of checking whether provider module is still
> > loaded on every access to device just lock module to
> > memory when client get reference to provider device.
> > 
> 
> This has nothing to do with the module, it's about the device. In the Linux
> device driver model as device can be unbound at any time and the IIO
> framework needs to handle this.
> 

Hm. Probably i am missing something here, but is this
still true if we have reference to device structure?

Regards,
Ivan
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