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| author | Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> | 2011-09-05 16:42:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> | 2011-09-21 19:45:32 +0300 |
| commit | e467b6421435f467e274d4f25d62900e1e0e4286 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b9b9eb7ab9680b89d34a2732f73b78b2d107582 /Documentation/hwspinlock.txt | |
| parent | 315d8f5ccdbb2abb609d1ca1119fb32273a09cf8 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwspinlock.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwspinlock.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt b/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt index 7dcd1a4e726c..bbaa4649b637 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt +++ b/Documentation/hwspinlock.txt @@ -256,18 +256,16 @@ underlying hwspinlock implementation using the hwspin_lock_register() API. * @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. 6. Implementation callbacks |