Re: [PATCH 2.5.60 2/9] Update parport class driver to new module loader API.

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:16:42 +0000

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:45:57PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> - void (*inc_use_count)(void);
> + int (*inc_use_count)(void);
> void (*dec_use_count)(void);

This is broken. You need

struct module *owner;

here and use try_module_et/module_put before calling into the module.

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