Hi,
On 12/22/05, Satinder <jeet_sat12@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everybody,
> I am having a query regarding the socket api uses in module writing.
> I am writing a module in which I am allocating the socket using the
> sock_alloc() in init_module() function,
> and mapping the socket to file descriptor using fget(sock_map_fd(<sock
> pointer>))
> In cleanup function I am using sock_release() for doing cleanup work on
> unloading the module.
> Does sock_release decreament the reference counter also ? or I have to do
> this my self using fput or sockfd_put?
yes it decrements reference counter. you dont have to do it manually.
>
> Is this is sufficient way of undoing the things (sock_alloc, sock_map_fd,
> fget) that I am doing in init_module().
> Or there is still much cleaner way of doing this.
>
> TIA,
> Satinder
>
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