ipack: save carrier owner to allow device to get it
There was not any kind of protection against carrier driver removal.
In this way, device driver can 'get' the carrier driver when it is
using it.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/ipack.h b/include/linux/ipack.h
index 1888e06..8bddc3f 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipack.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipack.h
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@
* @ops: bus operations for the mezzanine drivers
*/
struct ipack_bus_device {
+ struct module *owner;
struct device *parent;
int slots;
int bus_nr;
@@ -189,7 +190,8 @@
* available bus device in ipack.
*/
struct ipack_bus_device *ipack_bus_register(struct device *parent, int slots,
- const struct ipack_bus_ops *ops);
+ const struct ipack_bus_ops *ops,
+ struct module *owner);
/**
* ipack_bus_unregister -- unregister an ipack bus
@@ -265,3 +267,23 @@
.format = (_format), \
.vendor = (vend), \
.device = (dev)
+
+/**
+ * ipack_get_carrier - it increase the carrier ref. counter of
+ * the carrier module
+ * @dev: mezzanine device which wants to get the carrier
+ */
+static inline int ipack_get_carrier(struct ipack_device *dev)
+{
+ return try_module_get(dev->bus->owner);
+}
+
+/**
+ * ipack_get_carrier - it decrease the carrier ref. counter of
+ * the carrier module
+ * @dev: mezzanine device which wants to get the carrier
+ */
+static inline void ipack_put_carrier(struct ipack_device *dev)
+{
+ module_put(dev->bus->owner);
+}