On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 05:08:59PM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: > Call try_module_get() on a component before attempting to call its > bind() function, to ensure that a loadable module cannot be > unloaded while we are executing its bind(). How can bind be called while the module is unloaded? > If the bind is successful the module_put() is called only after it > has been unbound. This ensures that the module cannot be unloaded > while it is in use as an aggregate device. That's almost never the correct thing to do, what problem is this solving? thanks, greg k-h