Re: [RFC PATCH v5 1/1] fpga: add an owner and use it to take the low-level module's refcount

[Xu Yilun]

> Just to be sure that I understood correctly, you want to split the
> changes into two patches, like:
> 
> a) add module owner to the manager struct and take it in
> __fpga_mgr_get(); move put_device() from __fpga_mgr_get() to
> fpga_mgr_get() and of_fpga_mgr_get().
> 
> b) add the mutex and the unregistered flag for protection against races.
> 
> So that (b) can be reverted if try_module_get_safe() will be accepted?

Yes, that's what I mean.

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> Thanks,
> Marco
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