From: Denis V. Lunev <den@xxxxxxxxxx> Basically, try_module_get here are pretty useless. Any other module using this API will pin sunrpc in memory due using exported symbols. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c index 99a52aa..29e401b 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c @@ -108,13 +108,10 @@ int xprt_register_transport(struct xprt_class *transport) goto out; } - result = -EINVAL; - if (try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) { - list_add_tail(&transport->list, &xprt_list); - printk(KERN_INFO "RPC: Registered %s transport module.\n", - transport->name); - result = 0; - } + list_add_tail(&transport->list, &xprt_list); + printk(KERN_INFO "RPC: Registered %s transport module.\n", + transport->name); + result = 0; out: spin_unlock(&xprt_list_lock); @@ -143,7 +140,6 @@ int xprt_unregister_transport(struct xprt_class *transport) "RPC: Unregistered %s transport module.\n", transport->name); list_del_init(&transport->list); - module_put(THIS_MODULE); goto out; } } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html