hwspinlock/core: simplify 'owner' handling
Use struct device_driver's owner member instead of asking drivers to
explicitly pass the owner again.
This simplifies drivers and also save some memory, since there's no
point now in maintaining a separate owner pointer per hwspinlock.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt b/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt
index 7dcd1a4..bbaa464 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt
@@ -256,18 +256,16 @@
* @ops: vendor-specific hwspinlock handlers
* @id: a global, unique, system-wide, index of the lock.
* @lock: initialized and used by hwspinlock core
- * @owner: underlying implementation module, used to maintain module ref count
*/
struct hwspinlock {
struct device *dev;
const struct hwspinlock_ops *ops;
int id;
spinlock_t lock;
- struct module *owner;
};
-The underlying implementation is responsible to assign the dev, ops, id and
-owner members. The lock member, OTOH, is initialized and used by the hwspinlock
+The underlying implementation is responsible to assign the dev, ops and id
+members. The lock member, OTOH, is initialized and used by the hwspinlock
core.
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