Hello Kevin, On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Add use counters to omap_device to enable multiple potential users of > an omap_device. This is needed if ever there are multiple users or > multiple instances of a driver with a single omap_device. > > Without usecounting, with multiple users, the first one to call idle > may forcibly idle the device while other users are still active. Could you please send along an example of the use case for this? I would prefer not to add usecounting at this layer unless it is absolutely necessary, since only one driver should be bound to a device at a time. - Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html