On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:50:02PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: > While accessing a scsi_device, the use count of the underlying LLDD module > is incremented. The module reference is retrieved through .module field of > struct scsi_host_template. > > This mapping between scsi_device and underlying LLDD module works well > except ufs, unusual usb storage drivers, and sub drivers for esp_scsi. > These drivers consist with core driver and actual LLDDs, and > scsi_host_template is defined in the core driver. So the actual LLDDs can > be unloaded even if the scsi_device is being accessed. > > This patch series first adds ability to adjust module reference for > scsi host by LLDDs and then fixes actual LLDDs by adjusting module > reference after scsi host allocation. Why don't we move the module into the Scsi_Host only, and use the same macro that passes THIS_MODULE trick you are using in the sub drivers? That seems to be a fairly common scheme in other subsystems as well. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
