On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <l...@metafoo.de> wrote:
> My personal opinion on this is that disallowing module removal while a > driver registered by the module when is in use, while there is no technical > reason to do so, is a anti-feature. Whether in ALSA or elsewhere. > > But looking at the source it seems that this is a core feature of ALSA and > at least for the card module itself it will do the ref-counting when a > stream is started/stopped. And we even support setting the owner of a card > in ASoC. It's just that pretty much no ASoC card driver bothers to set the > owner field in the snd_soc_card struct. So this particular problem can be > fixed by updating the imx-wm8962 driver to set the owner field. Thanks, Lars_Peter. This fixes the issue: root@freescale /$ modprobe -r snd_soc_imx_wm8962 modprobe: can't unload module snd_soc_imx_wm8962: Resource temporarily unavailable Will send a patch with your suggestion soon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
