linux/Documentation/driver-api/virtio
Krzysztof Kozlowski ffe6176b7f virtio: store owner from modules with register_virtio_driver()
Modules registering driver with register_virtio_driver() might forget to
set .owner field.  i2c-virtio.c for example has it missing.  The field
is used by some other kernel parts for reference counting
(try_module_get()), so it is expected that drivers will set it.

Solve the problem by moving this task away from the drivers to the core
virtio code, just like we did for platform_driver in
commit 9447057eaf ("platform_device: use a macro instead of
platform_driver_register").

Fixes: 3cfc883804 ("i2c: virtio: add a virtio i2c frontend driver")
Cc: "Jie Deng" <jie.deng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240331-module-owner-virtio-v2-1-98f04bfaf46a@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2024-04-08 04:11:04 -04:00
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virtio.rst docs: driver-api: virtio: commentize spec version checking 2023-02-20 19:26:57 -05:00
writing_virtio_drivers.rst virtio: store owner from modules with register_virtio_driver() 2024-04-08 04:11:04 -04:00