This RFC proposes a solution to keep protecting the fpga bridge against the unloading of the low-level control modules while addressing the limitations of the current implementation. Currently, the code assumes that the low-level module registers a driver for the parent device that is later used to take the module's refcount. This proposal removes this limitation by adding a module owner field to the fpga_bridge struct that can be set while registering the bridge. The RFC patch is based on top of ("fpga: remove redundant checks for bridge ops"). https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fpga/20240201155713.82898-1-marpagan@xxxxxxxxxx/ Marco Pagani (1): fpga: bridge: improve protection against low-level control module unloading Documentation/driver-api/fpga/fpga-bridge.rst | 7 ++- drivers/fpga/fpga-bridge.c | 61 +++++++++++-------- include/linux/fpga/fpga-bridge.h | 10 ++- 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0