Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] vfio: platform: introduce vfio-platform-base module

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 23 October 2015 14:37:09 Eric Auger wrote:
> To prepare for vfio platform reset rework let's build
> vfio_platform_common.c and vfio_platform_irq.c in a separate
> module from vfio-platform and vfio-amba. This makes possible
> to have separate module inits and works around a race between
> platform driver init and vfio reset module init: that way we
> make sure symbols exported by base are available when vfio-platform
> driver gets probed.
> 
> The open/release being implemented in the base module, the ref
> count is applied to the parent module instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> 

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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