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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:28:15 -0500
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] hdaps driver update.
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On 9/14/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> No, if you have that .owner field in your driver, you get a symlink in
> sysfs that points from your driver to the module that controls it.  You
> just removed that symlink, which is not what I think you wanted to have
> happen :(
> 

Hmm, i have a concern WRT to that link - it is only present if driver
is registered from a code compiled as a module. If driver is built-in
THIS_MODULE is NULL and symlink will not be created. Hovewer
/sys/modules/<module> is created regardless of whether module is a
module or built-in. So the behavior is inconsistent and it looks like
a replacement is needed.

-- 
Dmitry
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