Re: Preventing module->init from being freed

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:09:26AM -0500, Asim wrote:
>> Recovery without reload/disappearing the device.
>
> recovery from what?  The module init code should have nothing to do with
> this if you have a properly written driver.  Do you have a pointer to
> your code which shows this need?
>
> What type of device is this for?  On what bus?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


At a glance it seems nosense, but I'd  guess he would like to reuse a
block of code  from the initialization code [which should fall back to
the straightforward solution where he might extract that block and
create another function].

Still, only a guess.



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