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To: Davide Rossetti <davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it>
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Subject: Re: rmmod while module is in use
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Davide Rossetti <davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it> writes:

> maybe RTFM...
> a module:
> - char device driver for..
> - a PCI device

Setting the 'owner' field of your char device's file_operations
structure to THIS_MODULE should be sufficient to enable the kernel to
manage the reference count for you.  This is the "magic" referred to
in linux-os's reply.
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