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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>
To: Yuusuke Ashizuka <ashiduka@fujitsu.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ravb: Fixed the problem that rmmod can not be done
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:04:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce81e95d-b3b0-7f1c-8f97-8bdcb23d5a8e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200730100151.7490-1-ashiduka@fujitsu.com>

Hello!

On 7/30/20 1:01 PM, Yuusuke Ashizuka wrote:

> ravb is a module driver, but I cannot rmmod it after insmod it.

   Modular. And "insmod'ing it".

> ravb does mdio_init() at the time of probe, and module->refcnt is incremented
> by alloc_mdio_bitbang() called after that.

   That seems a common pattern, inlluding the Renesas sh_eth driver...

> Therefore, even if ifup is not performed, the driver is in use and rmmod cannot
> be performed.

   No, the driver's remove() method calls ravb_mdio_release() and that one calls
free_mdio_bitbang() that calls module_put(); the actual reason lies somewehre deeper
than this... Unfortunately I don't have the affected hardware anymore... :-(

[...]

MBR, Sergei

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-30 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-30  3:56 [PATCH] ravb: Fixed the problem that rmmod can not be done Yuusuke Ashizuka
2020-07-30  7:55 ` kernel test robot
2020-07-30 10:01 ` [PATCH v2] " Yuusuke Ashizuka
2020-07-30 11:37   ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2020-07-30 16:24     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-07-31  6:43       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2020-07-31 17:45         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-07-30 16:04   ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2020-07-31 10:18     ` ashiduka
2020-07-31 16:28       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-08-06  2:26         ` ashiduka
2020-07-31 18:32   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-08-06  2:28     ` ashiduka

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