On Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:13 pm Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2008 23:14:31 Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Nothing takes a ref on virtio_pci, so even if you have > > devices in use, rmmod will attempt to unload the module. > > > > Fix by simply making each device take a ref on the module. > > Hi Mark, > > Taking a reference to oneself is almost always wrong. I'm a little > surprised that a successful call to pci_device->probe doesn't bump the > module count though. > > Jesse?
Looks like the PCI bus type's probe function does take a device reference, which should get called from driver_register when the driver calls pci_register_driver... Is that not happening in the virtio case? -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
