On Monday 02 February 2004 20:26, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:18:34PM +0100, Frank.A.Uepping@t-online.de wrote: > > Hello, > > I am wondering, that there is no owner field in struct bus_type and > > struct device_driver! Both have callbacks; how does the caller prevent > > the owning module from unloading? > > The fact that you have to unregister the driver before being able to > remove your module? Yes. However, I have compared this to the struct file_operations which has callbacks and register/unregister functions too, and additionally an owner field. Hence, I am wondering why the one come with an owner field whereas the others not? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > p.s. remember module unload is unsupported in the 2.6 kernel :) Just a great dream of Rusty ;) /FAU -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
