Re: try_module_get question

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Jul 16 2007 14:22, Robert Beckett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im a newcomer to kernel development, and have my first question :
>
> I want to create a small module that simply powers on an FPGA, and powers it
> off when it is released. Two other modules will then depend on this module and
> control different devices programmed into the FPGA.

How do they depend on it?

> So that the shared module
> does not get removed before any of the device drivers, I want to do a
> try_module_get from each driver targeting the shared module. What is the
> easiest way to get a reference to the shared module?
>
> My current thought is to export a function that will return a reference to it
> (using THIS_MODULE from the shared module). The device driver modules can then
> try_module_get the returned module. Is this the best way to do this?
>
> Is there an alternative way? maybe based on a similar system to the device /
> driver matching code?
> There seem to be a lot of FAQs online saying that you need to get and put a
> module before calling any function that may stall for example, but they dont
> tell you how to get the module reference to use.
>
> Or am I just missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert Beckett.

	Jan
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