On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:39:35PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > Greg: > > Is there any reason why the usb_serial_device_probe() and > usb_serial_device_remove() functions in bus.c go through all this > try_module_get business? The driver core already insures that the > module is pinned, because these routines are called only while the > driver is bound to the upper-level usb_serial device. I think it might have been left over from before I added that logic to the driver core to ensure things are "pinned". Are you sure that if that logic is removed we will still have the proper reference counting correct? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
