Re: PATCH: switch maestro3 to new ac97

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2003-07-11 at 19:48, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I note another positive attribute as well:
> 
> This new AC97 stuff makes object lifetime much more obvious, and makes
> it easy for someone to add refcounting later, if that comes up.
> 
> This patch is an excellent example of such.

Thats actually intentional. The current stuff doesn't need the
ref counting because it uses the coded locks for unload v I/O
locking, but people are adding a lot of stuff to ac97 now.

AC97 is DAC/ADC and GPIO pins, hence its showing up used for battery
reporting, touchscreens and other goodies.