From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
the maintainer doesn't response unfortauntely, but removing these from
net_devices unconditionally is the 2.6 way to go, there's no more module
refcounting on net devices.
---
25-akpm/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c | 9 ---------
1 files changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c~hysnd-MOD_USE_COUNT-fix drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c
--- 25/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c~hysnd-MOD_USE_COUNT-fix 2004-04-03 03:00:08.131995304 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c 2004-04-03 03:00:08.134994848 -0800
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ struct net_local {
struct sk_buff *skbs[MAX_SKB_BUFFERS]; /* pointers to tx-skbs */
int in_idx, out_idx; /* indexes to buffer ring */
int sk_count; /* number of buffers currently in ring */
-
- int is_open; /* flag controlling module locking */
}; /* net_local */
@@ -82,10 +80,6 @@ net_open(struct net_device *dev)
hysdn_card *card = dev->priv;
int i;
- if (!((struct net_local *) dev)->is_open)
- MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; /* increment only if interface is actually down */
- ((struct net_local *) dev)->is_open = 1; /* device actually open */
-
netif_start_queue(dev); /* start tx-queueing */
/* Fill in the MAC-level header (if not already set) */
@@ -130,9 +124,6 @@ net_close(struct net_device *dev)
netif_stop_queue(dev); /* disable queueing */
- if (((struct net_local *) dev)->is_open)
- MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT; /* adjust module counter */
- ((struct net_local *) dev)->is_open = 0;
flush_tx_buffers((struct net_local *) dev);
return (0); /* success */
_