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Dmitry Torokhov authored
In certain cases (for example when a cdev structure is embedded into another object whose lifetime is controlled by a separate kobject) it is beneficial to tie lifetime of another object to the lifetime of character device so that related object is not freed until after char_dev object is freed. To achieve this let's pin kobject's parent when doing cdev_add() and unpin when last reference to cdev structure is being released. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dmitry Torokhov authoredIn certain cases (for example when a cdev structure is embedded into another object whose lifetime is controlled by a separate kobject) it is beneficial to tie lifetime of another object to the lifetime of character device so that related object is not freed until after char_dev object is freed. To achieve this let's pin kobject's parent when doing cdev_add() and unpin when last reference to cdev structure is being released. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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