Dear Linux Team, I am trying to understand the USB Architecture and write my own client driver under Linux and some mew concepts of 2.6.x. My point of about kref ---------------------- Used when the multiple threads are involved within the driver. I am not sure whether this can be when there are no thread within the driver and to control the Process synchronization. Can I get some clarity on this? Main Question ------------- I have seen that kref_init () is issues in probe. // no issue with this Device memory allocation and Kref_get() call are issued in open context. Fine.ok. In that case kref_put should be called in close context or any error context. Right? Yes, I find these two being issued in the usb-skeleton driver. But, I find additional kref_put() call in disconnect? That too without any condition checking? Why do I need it here? Regards, Mukund Jampala -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
